PinnedMember-onlyMoore’s Law means Gaming moves to the CloudTen years ago, I worked on the System-on-Chip that would become the heart of the Xbox One game console. It was a dream job, but one I didn’t think would last long. Down the street in Mountain View a small company called OnLive¹ was developing revolutionary tech to enable game…Metaverse9 min readMetaverse9 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlySaaS Revenue Multiples, Interest Rates, and Modeling in R6 Simple Steps to Prove that Interest Rates don’t Fully Explain SaaS Valuation — Every year it seems like software companies become more valuable and more central to equity markets. Just this week, the prototypical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, Salesforce, was added to the Dow Jones Industrial average. It’s now the third largest component of the index. …Business7 min readBusiness7 min read
Feb 19Member-onlyWhat Do Journalists Have in Common?A Data Analysis of the American News Bubble — Two years ago, I wrote What Makes a Billionaire, breaking down the most common traits of American billionaires. Today, I’m going to do the same for American journalists. What attributes are shared by this semi-elite group of people? To answer this question, I ranked the top 10,000 journalists on Twitter…News3 min readNews3 min read
Dec 19, 2022Member-onlyWhat Was the Current Thing in 2022?A Data Analysis of the Year’s top Memes — For those in a rush, here were the current things of 2022.News3 min readNews3 min read
Published inThe Shadow·Jul 20, 2022Member-onlySmall-World Networks and the Twitter Journalist GraphThe Small World of Western Journalism — It’s a Small World After All In 1967, famed psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to know how many links there were between any two people. He gave test subjects packages with the name of a target individual. The subjects were asked to forward the packages to anyone who might know the person named. Without phone books or…Data7 min readData7 min read
Published inThe Shadow·Apr 26, 2022Member-onlyThe Most Influential Journalists on TwitterA Ranking of the Most Powerful and Connected Media Personalities — Why Twitter? With news that Elon Musk is acquiring Twitter for a hefty premium, the obvious question many are asking is, why? From the man himself:News5 min readNews5 min read
Published inThe Shadow·Jan 31, 2022Member-onlyA Gawker Data Postmortem6 Tricks That Got This Website Millions of Clicks — It’s hard to remember, but there was a time when Gawker was one of the most popular properties on the web. This trailblazing blog captured the attention of millions, spawned a collection of hit sites, and forever changed the tone of journalism. Instead of a deferential posture towards public figures…Media11 min readMedia11 min read
Jan 5, 2022Member-onlyAre You too Good for God?4 Reasons to Find Religion — “And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith” -Romans 14:23 The late David Foster Wallace said that all men are religious, the only choice is what to worship. In the year 2021, this insight is so commonplace as to be boring. Science is…Religion4 min readReligion4 min read
Aug 12, 2021Member-onlyThe Mess, The Spill, The ManA balloon cannot lift a child No matter how tight The seal the words seared into my lips, true and plain . See the autumn leaves The field of red red and brown and green Succumb To the colder ground . I sucked at my thumb You get lost one…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
May 29, 2021Member-onlyA Bottled ShipDisaster without a face All that awaits At the in-between state The cliff of seas and questions If my parents loved me, why do I hate myself ? What is this loop? Where is true unity? You crystal lattice You vibrating infinity Where is it? A genuine destiny I want…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
