The Future Is More Immersive Than Anyone Thinks
AI won't just make films. It will make characters that never sleep, and endless franchises built around them. The Vision Pro was early, not wrong.
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Beautifully Intoxicating
For anyone who doesn't like cities, New York is the exception, a place that makes the world feel bigger than most people allow themselves to imagine.
Technology Is the Opiate
Karl Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses. He was wrong for this era. Technology took the role — and unlike religion, it manufactures the suffering it claims to relieve.
The 2 a.m. Test
Are you a friend or an acquaintance? Let's find out.
The Super Bowl, Bad Bunny, and What It Means to Be American
Critics called Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance "un-American" because it was in Spanish. They forgot that Spanish has been spoken in what is now the United States since 1513—decades before Jamestown or Plymouth
The Friction Problem
Modern platforms reward whatever is most clickable, not whatever is most true. Long-form reading introduces friction that makes quackery harder to sustain.
The Dictator's Hoodie
A Venezuelan dictator on U.S. soil wearing a 100% American-made hoodie—the irony of freedom's uniform on a man accused of crushing it.
Worldviews
People rarely experience the same event the same way.