My good friend and former co-founder shared the following story on LinkedIn about our work building a low cost street quality sensor. That type of work is radically common sense. Cities don't actually know where all the potholes are and overpay a consultant-industrial complex for suboptimal garbage-in-garbage-out reports that don't actually reflect the operational reality of urban infrastructure. As we grapple with the climate crisis and the massive disruption recked by DOGE, there's an urgen...

For Day 100 of 2025, I have some updates on what I’ve been up to so far this year. Some news is poetic, and some is literary, with a bit of multimedia tech stuff to tie it all together.

Being a creator is fucking hard. I've been thinking about TOC incorrectly, time to switch it up.

A new generative artifact From the minds behind Based Punks and Based Toadz, a new form has emerged: Glyphs. Each glyph is mutating into a tokenized entry-point for…

We're off to Coachella this weekend! But that's not before we dropped a new set from San Holo, Maribou State's biggest single and new records from NOTION, MPH and Lyrah! Coop Records is a place to discover new music and prove that you were early. Our catalog is in the best position it's ever been and we're being extremely intention to curate songs that are worth collecting. All our energy is pointed at building out a mobile experience that makes it easy to buy and download songs without havin...

A guide to tuning into your own "circadian rhythms" of personal productivity and motivation

We're trying to capture poetry in this issue #240 of your weekly poetry shot

Yesterday, Austin City Council voted 10-1 in favor of a building code amendment that will allow single-stair apartment buildings up to five storeys and with 4 homes per floor. This is progress. Austin now joins Seattle, New York, and possibly other US cities in allowing this building type, which is a type that is widespread outside of North America. Paris, for instance, allows single-stair buildings up to 50m. In all of these newly allowable cases, there's usually a requirement to sprinkler t...

Consumer Crypto M&A ThemesOver the past few months and in particular the past few weeks, we’ve seen a string of higher profile M&A moves in crypto. Some that came across my radar: Republic acquired exchange INX for $60M, Kraken acquired crypto futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5B, Coinbase acquired ad platform Spindl, and Ripple acquired institutional service provider Hidden Road for $1.25B. Talk about big numbers! 🤑 Among all those eye-watering figures and headlines there has also...

Goals, drama, cards, and brilliant saves. The last two nights of Champions League football had them all in abundance. We take a look back to capture the things that stood out for us the most as two incredible nights of action unfolded across Europe.Ancellotti's Passivity Costs Real MadridWhen Declan Rice stood over the free kick in the 58th minute and sent it crashing into the Madrid net, my first thought was hope. A faint, flickering hope that maybe, just maybe, Arsenal could find a way to d...