Sitemap 2025-04

Apr 1, 2025

Freeform Update: Why Vibe Surveys Beat Static Forms

If tools are getting more expressive, why are user experiences still stuck in checkboxes and static flows? Freeform is our answer to that question.

Apr 2, 2025

OpenAI Is a Once-in-a-lifetime Startup

This newest funding round means this company has either a trillion-dollar outcome—or nothing at all.

Apr 3, 2025

Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman on consciousness, wonder, and emotions

Apr 4, 2025

The Mantra of This AI Age: Don’t Repeat Yourself

Language models handle the repetition—people decide what matters

Apr 4, 2025

Tried AI? You Are Not ‘Most Americans’

Plus: The inside story of vibe forms

Apr 7, 2025

The Race Is On to Redesign Everything for AI Agents

There are billion-dollar markets to be seized—if you can learn to see like an agent.

Apr 8, 2025

This Master of AI Agents Is Most at Home in the Analog

Tina He spends her days building at the cutting edge of AI—and usually surrounded by books.

Apr 9, 2025

An Inside Look at Every’s Design Philosophy

Our creative lead Lucas Crespo on making the internet feel beautiful

Apr 10, 2025

How to Write Online

It’s less about capturing attention, and more about deserving it

Apr 11, 2025

Your CEO Just Said ‘Use AI or Else.’ Here’s What to Do Next.

Shopify’s CEO announced that AI is a workplace expectation. This is your step-by-step guide to mastering AI at work.

Apr 12, 2025

The Real AI Bottleneck: Bad UX

Plus: The race to design for agents, and a guide for AI in the workplace

Apr 14, 2025

A Science-based Guide to Thinking Creatively—With LLMs

Creativity isn’t magic. You can train it like a muscle, and AI can help.

Apr 15, 2025

AI Phobia Is Just Fear That ‘Easier’ Equals ‘Cheating’

What a wave of ‘zero-AI’ policies reveals about our obsession with hard work

Apr 16, 2025

Vibe Check: o3 Is Here—And It’s Great

The highest praise I can give is that I’m already using it all the time

Apr 17, 2025

This AI Alien Will Bring In $4 Million This Year in Revenue

Portola cofounder Quinten Farmer and head of story Eliot Peper on building AI companions that feel real

Apr 18, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI’s o3, GPT-4.1, and o4-mini

Our take on what’s powerful, what’s practical, and what’s still TBD

Apr 18, 2025

The AI Model Flood

Plus: Meet your new AI alien best friend

Apr 22, 2025

The Leverage

Where you can find my analysis going forward

Apr 23, 2025

How to Predict the Future Like Kevin Kelly

He was early to the internet, VR, crypto—and now AI. The 'Wired' cofounder on exploring the edges of what’s next.

Apr 24, 2025

I Rebuilt an App Thousands of People Use in 14 Days With AI

Where I went wrong, and then right, with vibe coding our file organizer Sparkle

Apr 25, 2025

AI Can Fix Social Media’s Original Sin

You are what you say you are—not just what you click

Apr 27, 2025

Disclaimer: AI Generated

Responsibility versus transparency in the AI era. Plus: An upgrade to our file-organizing app Sparkle.

Apr 28, 2025

AI Isn’t Only a Tool—It’s a Whole New Storytelling Medium

Three principles for worldbuilding in the AI era

Apr 29, 2025

Where a Sci-fi Novelist Surfs for Story Ideas

The surfboards, split keyboard, and improv guidebook fueling Eliot Peper’s AI worldbuilding

Apr 30, 2025

The Next AI Wave Will Be Social, Not Solo

Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel on why the future of consumer AI should tap into our need to share

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