The internet was a distribution revolution. AI is a *production* revolution.

What the Industrial Revolution was for physical production, AI is for digital production.

I wrote a piece about this new era of mass production:
digitalnative.tech/p/weapons-of-m…

I'm calling 'peak work.'

Over the past few years, workday signoff times have moved earlier. This trend-line is relatively new (and certainly partly due to the pandemic). But there's also a broader trend at play:

In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that his…

Canada Goose's seasonality is wild. Should merge with a swimwear company and use the same stores / team to sell swimwear in summer & parkas in winter.

Wild stat: 10% of Anguilla's GDP now comes from people buying '.ai' domains.

Venture capital has a bad rap. We have…a bit of a PR problem.

In my mind, this is undeserved. I realize this view is self-serving, given that I work in venture and recently started a venture firm, but bear with me.

A 2021 Stanford paper found that venture-backed companies…

I'd love to see a side-by-side of Facebook monthly active users today vs. if Facebook had never launched Marketplace.

FB Marketplace is the 2nd-largest marketplace in the world by users (1B+) behind only Amazon—and it feels like everyone I know only still has FB because of it.

Find My has quietly become the social app of the moment.

Most young people I talk to track 5, 10, 15+ friends on Find My. This gets at the biggest trend in social: latent awareness. Curiosity about what other people are up to.

I expect the concept will extend to other data.…

This chart starts in 1931 with a German computer, which was presented to Hitler at the time (who saw no use in it). That computer did 0.000007 calculations per second per constant dollar.

The chart ends with a modern-day Google computer that can do 65 billion (!) calculations…

The Huberman-ization of America:

In 2020, Andrew Huberman was a little-known Stanford neuroscience professor. Fast forward a few years, and Huberman is a bona fide celebrity and one of the biggest podcasters in the world.

Huberman launched his Huberman Lab podcast in 2021. In…