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Latest — 14 Jan 2026

The Weeking #5

Three wonderful things to read this week Eight Software Markets that AI Will Transform Differently A well-considered and very welcome read: Software is produced in at least eight distinct markets, each with different constraints, different demand elasticities, and different relationships to the factors that AI coding actually changes. Predicting what

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The Good Thing #3

Mark's monthly newsletter filled with big things, new things, wonderful things, fun things, recent things and upcoming things...

The Weeking #4

Two insightful essays, and a fun place to play... Horses An interesting analogy - written by an employee at AI powerhouse Anthropic - comparing the improvement in the automobile at the start of the 20th century, versus the number of horses, then mapping this onto human labor versus AI, in

The Weeking #3

Two great articles, one toy that goes BOING! How Math Broke Media by Doug Shapiro A really interesting take on how changes in both distribution (streaming) and production (AI) have broken models describing what media is, how it works, how it earns, etc... ...that is poised to change the underlying

The Good Thing #2

Hello and welcome to second edition of The Good Thing, Mark Pesce's monthly(ish) newsletter filled with all sorts of good things, new things, big things, wonderful things, recent things, upcoming things, free things and fun things.

Notes on Digital Feudalism

'Digital feudalism' has come to mind for me because it was written by as one of the possible features and in fact, the future of least resistance that we're heading toward, in the book The Last Economy by Emad Mostaque. The knee-jerk reaction is that digital

The Weeking #2

The Weeking offers two strong essays about what's happening to jobs right now - one from the POV of a seasoned professional, another from a bright kid trying to enter the market as a uni graduate. Plus, a lovely toy.

The Weeking #1

Three articles you should read AI's Dial-Up Era AI's Dial-Up Era - by Nowfal - Wreflection The economics of artificial intelligence remain murky. Although I remain agnostic on the impact of AI on the workforce, I am absolutely convinced that AI will alter how we work.

My mentor

I cannot say that I owe everything to Owen. I can say that I will never really know how much I owe him. He was a teacher. He was a friend. He was amazing. And hardly anyone knows.