Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog22 Mar 2026
“When art critics get together they talk about form and structure and meaning. When artists get together, they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” — attributed to Pablo Picasso I’ve...
Ness Labsby Anne-Laure Le Cunff11 Mar 2026
We often talk about “trusting our gut.” But the gut feelings people refer to can actually stem from two very different sources: instinct and intuition.
Steve Blankby steve blank24 Feb 2026
What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in Philanthropy.org A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans19 Feb 2026
How will OpenAI compete? “Jakub and Mark set the research direction for the long run. Then after months of work, something incredible emerges and I get a researcher pinging me saying: “I have...
Blog19 Feb 2026
You have probably noticed that my website has been a bit stale the last few months. I'll be frank about why that is.
The Gradientby Peli Grietzer18 Feb 2026
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans18 Feb 2026
Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page.
Coding Horrorby Jeff Atwood4 Feb 2026
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now.
Ness Labsby Editorial Team3 Feb 2026
Welcome to this edition of our Tools for Thought series, where we interview founders on a mission to help us think, connect, and live better.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty25 Jan 2026
I keep discovering that time is not a straight line so much as a series of rooms I can still walk into, even when the doors are supposed to be closed.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans23 Nov 2025
AI, networks and Mechanical Turks Any consumer internet system with critical mass becomes, in part, a Mechanical Turk. It looks at what the users do and draws conclusions from that.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty9 Nov 2025
There’s a strange kind of peace that comes from admitting you don’t know who you are. Not in the adolescent, identity-crisis way—but in the calm, adult sense of realising that not knowing is...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans25 May 2025
GenAI’s adoption puzzle This chart is very ‘glass half-empty or half-full?’, and it’s a puzzle. You could say that this is amazingly fast adoption, and much faster than PCs, the web or smartphones.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty11 May 2025
The other afternoon, as I was having coffee and trying to focus on a very overdue deadline, my brain decided it was the perfect moment to remind me of this random shopkeeper from my childhood.
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.
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