For most of the history of Silicon Valley, wealth accumulation happened quietly.
Everybody thinks the startup world runs on code. It doesn’t. It runs on signal.
I grew up with a pretty simple operating system: I’m allergic to very little, but one thing I cannot tolerate is bullshit.
jason looks in a mirror
In early 2026 a category that barely existed five years ago has quietly become one of the fastest-growing segments in consumer AI: AI companions.
There is a particular kind of decay that does not look dramatic from the outside. No collapsing buildings. No empty streets.
Hope has become one of the most diluted words in modern language.
Every era produces people who cannot stop fighting power even when it would clearly be easier, safer, and more profitable to shut up.
The internet spent twenty years pretending that culture and technology were separate conversations. They were not.
There is a simple test for whether a company actually respects its customers. Not a slogan test, not a mission-statement test, and certainly not a marketing test.