The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty4 May 2025
There are days that vanish like socks in a washing machine. You know you had them—you vaguely remember wearing them—but when you go looking, they’re just… gone.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty20 Apr 2025
When I was ten, I was going to be a cricketer. Or a pilot. Or a scientist. Or, in a particularly bold moment, a cricketer-scientist who flew planes on the weekends and solved global warming in his...
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty6 Apr 2025
When I was in Sri Lanka recently, I met a girl who’d been travelling for years. Like, plural. Her passport looked like a Jackson Pollock painting of visa stamps.
Coding Horrorby Jeff Atwood20 Mar 2025
The following is drawn from a speech I delivered today at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City, where I joined Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman to discuss the future of the American...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans14 Mar 2025
What kind of disruption? I made this slide for a presentation I’m giving next week, but I think it’s worth picking up and talking about in its own right.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans14 Mar 2025
Apple innovation and execution People have been claiming that Apple has forgotten how to innovate since the early 1980s, or longer - it’s a standing joke in talking about the company.
Coding Horrorby Jeff Atwood6 Mar 2025
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work.
decor8by Holly Becker23 Feb 2025
Are You Codependent on Your Business? I’ll be honest: running a small business is personal. It’s not just about products, posts, or profits.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans18 Feb 2025
The Deep Research problem Most what I do for a living is research and analysis. I think of data I’d like to see and go looking for it; I compile and collate it, make charts, decide they’re boring...
Zac Sweersby Zac Sweers17 Feb 2025
We said goodbye to mom in May after a five year battle with cancer. She left on her own terms, under the care of the wonderful University of Vermont hospice network and Act 39.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty16 Feb 2025
Imagine this: you’re at a zoo. But not just any zoo—the Existential Zoo, where the enclosures don’t hold animals but stages of human transformation.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans22 Jan 2025
Are better models better? Every week, there’s a new model, a new approach, and something new to play with. And every week, people ask me ‘have you tried o1 Pro? Phi 4?
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes24 Sept 2024
Community, corporations and more Posted on Summer 2023 I made an overview of things I was doing. Summer 2024 is behind us, and now I've got a new list. And my goodness, what a list it is.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans19 Aug 2024
Competing in search A search engine is a vast mechanical Turk - a reinforcement learning engine that uses human activity to understand the web.
The Gradientby Joel Lehman3 Aug 2024
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy.
Slack Designby andyacevedo22 Jul 2024
Let’s face it: besides “let’s take this offline,” the word culture is one of the most overused pieces of corporate jargon.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans9 Jul 2024
The AI summer My old boss Marc Andreessen liked to say that every failed idea from the Dotcom bubble would work now.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans8 Jul 2024
The VR winter continues It can feel a little odd to write about anything other than generative AI these days, but I sometimes remind people that all the things that we were talking about in October...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans20 Jun 2024
Apple intelligence and AI maximalism No-one outside Apple has really used any Apple Intelligence features yet.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans8 Jun 2024
Building AI products I will fly to India on Monday for a brief trip, and so I just spent an hour struggling through a very buggy online visa application process.
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