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The Unit Economics of Boredom
Streaming P&Ls optimize for minutes produced, which is cheap. The scarce variable is minutes earned — attention that is genuinely arousal-weighted. The winning service...
The NBA's Next Decade Will Not Look Like Its Last
The eleven-year, $76 billion media rights deal was priced against a world that is already moving — generationally, geographically, and through the betting layer — out ...
The Measurement Problem in Creator Economics
CPM, followers, watch-time, RPM. The canonical creator-economy metrics are inherited from businesses that no longer exist. Modern creator revenue has three components,...
A Short Taxonomy of Bundle Collapse
Since the streaming bundle wave began in 2024, the industry has tried many bundle shapes and almost all of them have collapsed into four recurring modes of failure. Th...
The Verdict Was Always ComingDispatch
A jury just told Meta and Google what parents already knew — their platforms are unsafe for children. We built Kidoodle.TV because we believed it didn't have to be thi...
The Danger of Binaries
We love sorting the world into two buckets. Left or right. Growth or profit. Success or failure. But the most important things in life — and in business and politics —...
One Book a Month: Growing Up with the Famous Five
My brother and I pooled our pocket money to buy one Enid Blyton book every month. We fought over who got to read it first. Thirty years later, I still remember the sme...
The Language That Built the World's Databases: Clipper, ASCII Art, and the Golden Age of DOS
Before the web, before Windows, before most people had ever touched a computer — there was a language called Clipper, a compiler that turned dBASE code into executable...
The Game That Was Always There: Women's Soccer, the NWSL, and Why Sunday Night Just Changed Forever
Women's soccer in America has endured two collapsed leagues, decades of underfunding, and a media ecosystem that never matched the demand. With the NWSL's record-shatt...
Building a Family Recipe BookNote
Building a 10,000-Book Library from ScratchNote
I built a curated digital library of 10,001 books spanning serious literature, science fiction, detective fiction, science, and a dozen other genres — with a REST API,...
Zeitgeist — Which Sports Teams Are People Actually Paying Attention To?Note
I built a dashboard that tracks digital attention across all 92 NBA, MLB, and NHL teams using seven data sources — from Wikipedia and ESPN to ticket demand and betting...
Oil vs Stock: Seeing the Relationship Between Oil and EquitiesNote
I built a dashboard that overlays crude oil prices with any stock ticker — because sometimes the best way to understand a relationship is to just look at it.
Leapfrogging vs. Stepwise Growth: Two Paradigms of Progress
From India's telecom revolution to Kenya's mobile money miracle, the most transformative progress often comes not from climbing the ladder rung by rung — but from skip...
What Isn’t Changing: The Enduring Power of Live Sports in an Age of Acceleration
In an era of compounding disruption from AI and shifting demographics, live sports endure as a uniquely resilient cultural and economic force.
The Many X Opportunity in Sports Streaming
Free sports streaming is delivering many times the audience of traditional media — here is what the data shows and why it matters.
What solving 3650 New York Times crosswords puzzles has taught me
Ten years and 3650 puzzles later — lessons in patience, pattern recognition, and persistence from a daily NYT crossword habit.
An Ode to the Remote Control
The demise of the RSN model is forcing sports franchises to rethink how they reach fans — and the remote control holds the key.
Where in the World is Naren – Building An Interactive Travel MapNote
Building an interactive travel map with Leaflet.js to showcase every place I have visited or lived in around the world.
Sports — The First Frontier
From watching the 1990 World Cup final on a tiny black and white TV to understanding why live sports remain the most powerful form of media.
The Architecture of Attention: Why the Only Finite Asset Is the One We Understand Least
Human attention is the only truly finite asset in media. Three cognitive models from the 1950s through the 1970s explain more about how we watch, scroll, and subscribe...
Rebuilding a personal siteNote
After twenty-five years and multiple false starts, finally rebuilding a personal site the right way with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
Learnings from launching KBITS Live — the new streaming home for the world’s best Cisco networking trainerNote
How we helped a top Cisco networking trainer break free from aggregation platforms and launch his own streaming service.
Since Hindsight is 2020
Reflecting on twenty years of career transitions — from web design to journalism, digital marketing to building a streaming platform.
Essential Reading for FoundersDispatch
A curated, living list of the most influential books for startup founders, with video talks where available.