Jan 31, 2024
“Network architecture is destiny.” Thus opens Chris Dixon’s great new book, Read Write Own, a chronicling of the open Internet, its corporate takeover, and the dawn of blockchain networks — the third network era. This week, I had the pleasure of hosting Chris on the Pirate Wires pod, and we had a great conversation on all of this and more:
the real chokepoint in the ai race is power, and elon is betting he can generate power in space faster than our glacial bureaucracy will allow down here on earth
this week, two leading betting platforms upped the ante in their blood feud by surprising broke new yorkers with free groceries. how did we get here?
I spoke with 21 billionaires about california’s unprecedented asset seizure ballot proposition. here: their plans to leave, their efforts to fight back, and the future of tech in california