Archive - Trajectory

Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?

A reconsideration of the Microsoft CEO everybody loves to hate

Jul 23 •

January 2024

Apple Vision Pro Wants to be Two Products

A case study of how being opinionated on the use case of a product can help you grapple with the limitations of an improving technology in a v1 product

Jan 30 •

November 2023

OpenAI and The Silicon Valley Way

Silicon Valley fell off the path, and must re-embrace it

Nov 21, 2023 •

October 2023

LLMs are a revolution in cofounder relationships

Specifically, the technical/nontechnical divide

Oct 2, 2023 •

August 2023

OpenAI will crush Sarah Silverman

But Congress could change that

Aug 1, 2023 •

December 2022

Tech’s Gell-Mann Paranoia

The importance of saving trust

Dec 4, 2022 •

November 2022

Epicycles of thought

Avoiding overcomplicated mental models

Nov 30, 2022 •

August 2022

Some spicy web3 hot takes

Literally, just the takes

Aug 17, 2022 •

May 2022

Using secondaries strategically

Why startups should look at secondaries more favorably

May 23, 2022 •

April 2022

Engineers who look up

The value of curiosity and initiative

Apr 3, 2022 •

January 2022

What’s happening with valuations

Making sense of valuations in Startup Land

Jan 18, 2022 •

The future of SPACs

A thought exercise in stable equilibria

Jan 7, 2022 •

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