tech, startups, internet

Watch out for CircleUp

Neil Constable is the new Chief Investment Officer of a firm that’s pioneering quant investing in private markets. They started as a marketplace for venture fundraising, but eventually developed such a great dataset that they closed the marketplace and started […]

fun facts

An oral history of the AIM away message

The author found the original AIM creator and a handful of designers and developers to learn their stories. “It might have started out as something purely functional—a live out-of-office, if you will—but the away message was much more than that.” […]

fun facts

A $9 Billion scam involving Nigeria

“A dying Irishman went for one last big score in Nigeria. The project failed, but a London tribunal says his company’s owed $9 billion and counting.” | learn more

on the blockchain

Lil Miquela & the blockchain dress

“…Synthetic Media … is a new-ish, still-to-be-defined term that covers everything from virtual influencers like L’il Miquela, natural language generative text like talktotransformer, deepfakes, the AI-generated painting that sold at Christies for $432,500, and any other media created purely by […]

better doing

The magic moment

The moment when you have the freedom to create without the demands of publishing. This article includes a Dr. Dre quote about his first meeting with Eminem:“It’s one of those things were you just know. Something special is happening. I’m […]

better doing

Investors and operators: lessons learned from both worlds

From Brent Beshore who’s building a different sort of investment firm at adventur.es. “An essay on what investors should learn from small and midsize business operators in the trenches, and on what operators should learn from professional investors.” | learn more