Top Posts

Internet Theory

• Posting is the Most Powerful Force in the Universe

• The Internet is for Extremism

• Content Moderation is Impossible

• Video is Impossible (and part two)

• It’s Always Smartphones

• The Carcinization of Content

• Four Theories of Meta

Influencers and Culture

• There Are No Ethical Momfluencers

• Why Livestreamers are Politically Insane

• The Rise of Girlies

• The Wreckage of Virality

• Flat Earthers and Belief in Belief

• The Age of Doom

• Things Were Better When Things Were Worse

• Social Media Ruined The Daily Show

• Old Art is Strangling New Art

• On Journalists As Influencers

• Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay

Politics

• Ugh, Capitalism

• Arguments are Soldiers

• How Gay Marriage Ruined Democratic Activism

• Activism is Not a Social Club

• Leopards Eating Conservative Faces

• Revolt and the Reversal of Trust

• JD Vance and Vice Signaling

• MAGA as Master Morality

• In Search of Furious Liberals

• The Media Thinks Republicans Are Aliens

• Democrats have their own Extremism Problem

Personal Reflections

• On Consumption vs Production

• Technology Profanes the Sacred

• What is the purpose of liberalism?

• Donating a Kidney

• The Most Important Decision You’ll Ever Make

Podcast

• Offline with Jon Favreau

• Cartoons Hate Her

• Chinese DoomScroll

• Andrew Heaton

• Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie

• Russia’s Z Generation

Internet Book Club

• Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz

• Filterworld by Kyle Chayka

• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

• The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll

• The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes

• The Conspiracists by Noelle Cook