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Sly Stone and the Scariest Show Ever

I don't think I've ever felt more tension in the room during a live performance than when I was standing five feet in front of Sly Stone, in a room that felt like a powder keg ready to blow. And I don't think I've ever seen a room feel greater relief than watching him tear i...

Anil Dash

Sly Stone and the Scariest Show Ever

I don't think I've ever felt more tension in the room during a live performance than when I was standing five feet in front of Sly Stone, in a room that felt like a powder keg ready to blow. And I don't think I've ever seen a room feel greater relief than watching him tear i...

Anil Dash

Sly Stone and the Scariest Show Ever

I don't think I've ever felt more tension in the room during a live performance than when I was standing five feet in front of Sly Stone, in a room that felt like a powder keg ready to blow. And I don't think I've ever seen a room feel greater relief than watching him tear i...

Anil Dash

Who washes their hands?

Every few months, we see someone in culture who unabashedly talks about not washing well, whether it's a celebrity discussing their griminess, or a random person on social media who inadvertently reveals their poor ablutionary proclivities. Sometimes it’s about their own hyg...

Anil Dash

The Internet of Consent

Click “I agree” to continue. You didn’t click it, though. Or maybe you did? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter. The concept of consent doesn’t exist on the modern internet. You didn’t read the terms of service. You didn’t agree to accept cookies. I didn’t consent to having my s...

Anil Dash

Who washes their hands?

Every few months, we see someone in culture who unabashedly talks about not washing well, whether it's a celebrity discussing their griminess, or a random person on social media who inadvertently reveals their poor ablutionary proclivities. Sometimes it’s about their own hyg...

Anil Dash

Who washes their hands?

Every few months, we see someone in culture who unabashedly talks about not washing well, whether it's a celebrity discussing their griminess, or a random person on social media who inadvertently reveals their poor ablutionary proclivities. Sometimes it’s about their own hyg...

Anil Dash

The Internet of Consent

Click “I agree” to continue. You didn’t click it, though. Or maybe you did? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter. The concept of consent doesn’t exist on the modern internet. You didn’t read the terms of service. You didn’t agree to accept cookies. I didn’t consent to having my s...

Anil Dash

The Internet of Consent

Click “I agree” to continue. You didn’t click it, though. Or maybe you did? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter. The concept of consent doesn’t exist on the modern internet. You didn’t read the terms of service. You didn’t agree to accept cookies. I didn’t consent to having my s...

Anil Dash

The Internet of Consent

Click “I agree” to continue. You didn’t click it, though. Or maybe you did? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter. The concept of consent doesn’t exist on the modern internet. You didn’t read the terms of service. You didn’t agree to accept cookies. I didn’t consent to having my s...

Anil Dash

The Crafters of “Andor”

It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...

Anil Dash

The Crafters of “Andor”

It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...

Anil Dash

The Crafters of “Andor”

It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...

Anil Dash

The Crafters of “Andor”

It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...

Anil Dash

The Crafters of “Andor”

It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...

Anil Dash

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0

Over the last few months, all the nerds have gotten excited about Model Context Protocol, or MCP. It's a spec that was designed by Anthropic (the Claude folks) last year to let their LLM know how to ask various apps for information or be able to interact with different syste...

Anil Dash

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0

Over the last few months, all the nerds have gotten excited about Model Context Protocol, or MCP. It's a spec that was designed by Anthropic (the Claude folks) last year to let their LLM know how to ask various apps for information or be able to interact with different syste...

Anil Dash

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0

Over the last few months, all the nerds have gotten excited about Model Context Protocol, or MCP. It's a spec that was designed by Anthropic (the Claude folks) last year to let their LLM know how to ask various apps for information or be able to interact with different syste...

Anil Dash

What Would “Good” AI Look Like?

We're a few years into the tech industry's AI hype cycle, and it's all been characterized by far more heat than light. The assertions by the people making the AI platforms are as absurd as we've come to expect from shameless Silicon Valley shills. (AGI: a strategy of raising...

Anil Dash

What Would “Good” AI Look Like?

We're a few years into the tech industry's AI hype cycle, and it's all been characterized by far more heat than light. The assertions by the people making the AI platforms are as absurd as we've come to expect from shameless Silicon Valley shills. (AGI: a strategy of raising...

Anil Dash

What Would “Good” AI Look Like?

We're a few years into the tech industry's AI hype cycle, and it's all been characterized by far more heat than light. The assertions by the people making the AI platforms are as absurd as we've come to expect from shameless Silicon Valley shills. (AGI: a strategy of raising...

Anil Dash

What Would “Good” AI Look Like?

We're a few years into the tech industry's AI hype cycle, and it's all been characterized by far more heat than light. The assertions by the people making the AI platforms are as absurd as we've come to expect from shameless Silicon Valley shills. (AGI: a strategy of raising...

Anil Dash

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office

The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to the office — it's demanding that all work be AI-first! This is a great idea if you think nobody at your company is great at wh...

Anil Dash

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office

The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to the office — it's demanding that all work be AI-first! This is a great idea if you think nobody at your company is great at wh...

Anil Dash

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office

The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to the office — it's demanding that all work be AI-first! This is a great idea if you think nobody at your company is great at wh...

Anil Dash

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office

The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to the office — it's demanding that all work be AI-first! This is a great idea if you think nobody at your company is great at wh...

Anil Dash

It's time for Dolly to record that long-lost Prince song.

By many measures, 1986 was the greatest year of Prince’s extraordinary career. One of the most remarkable metrics was that he recorded over 250 songs that year, many of which were released on his own albums or that he gave away to other artists over the years. But one of tho...

Anil Dash

It's time for Dolly to record that long-lost Prince song.

By many measures, 1986 was the greatest year of Prince’s extraordinary career. One of the most remarkable metrics was that he recorded over 250 songs that year, many of which were released on his own albums or that he gave away to other artists over the years. But one of tho...

Anil Dash

It's time for Dolly to record that long-lost Prince song.

By many measures, 1986 was the greatest year of Prince’s extraordinary career. One of the most remarkable metrics was that he recorded over 250 songs that year, many of which were released on his own albums or that he gave away to other artists over the years. But one of tho...

Anil Dash

A Bug Report is a Gift

Towards the end of last year, I got the delightful opportunity to talk to Scott Carey for the Priority Zero podcast from LeadDev. LeadDev is such a wonderfully thoughtful community for people who think about how people create with code, and who manage teams who create technology at scale.

It's a wide-ranging conversation, and Scott was incredibly kind to indulge us covering so many topics, but I was particularly grateful to get to have the discussion at about 49:10 of the ways so many leaders in industry are trying to shirk responsibility, and I tried to articulate how those efforts ignore the awful, often immoral level of power that's vested in the hands of business leaders. We unfortunately can see exactly how that's being abused very plainly in every aspect of our society today.