Anil Dash
Anil Dash — Technology entrepreneur and writer
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.comIf someone said, 'I want to be an executive at Walmart, or maybe at A24,' you would think, 'This person has no idea what the hell they want to be.'
Over two million words since 1999, from one of the most consistently interesting voices in technology and culture. Anil writes about the tech industry with the perspective of someone who's been inside it for decades but never stopped questioning it — from the absurdity of lumping wildly different companies under "tech" to how Markdown quietly took over the world. No ads, no trackers, just sharp thinking about how technology shapes culture.
Written by Anil Dash since 1999.
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Talking through the tech reckoning
Many of the topics that we’ve all been discussing about technology these days seem to matter so much more, and the stakes have never been higher. So, I’ve been trying to engage with more conversations out in the world, in hopes of communicating some of the ideas that might not get shared from more traditional voices in technology. These recent conversations have been pretty well received, and I hope you’ll take a minute to give them a listen when you have a moment. Galaxy Brain First, it was nic...
Taking action against AI harms
In my last piece, I talked about the harms that AI is visiting on children through the irresponsible choices made by the platforms creating those products. While we dove a bit into the incentives and institutional pressures that cause those companies to make such wildly irresponsible decisions, what we haven’t yet reckoned with is how we hold these companies accountable. Often, people tell me they feel overwhelmed at the idea of trying to engage with getting laws passed, or fighting a big politi...
How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI?
I have to begin by warning you about the content in this piece; while I won’t be dwelling on any specifics, this will necessarily be a broad discussion about some of the most disturbing topics imaginable. I resent that I have to give you that warning, but I’m forced to because of the choices that the Big AI companies have made that affect children. I don’t say this lightly. But this is the point we must reckon with if we are having an honest conversation about contemporary technology. Let me get...
Launch it 3 times
I wanted to share one of the bits of advice that I find myself most frequently giving to teams when they’re working on a product, or founders who are creating a new company: launch it three times. What I mean by that is, it often takes more than one time before your idea actually resonates or sticks with the people you’re trying to reach. Sometimes it takes more than twice! And when I say that you might need to launch again, that can mean a lot of different things. It might just be little tweaks...
Coding agents as the new compilers
In each successive generation of code creation thus far, we’ve abstracted away the prior generation over time. Usually, only a small percentage of coders still work on the lower layers of the stack that used to be the space where everyone was working. I’ve been coding long enough that people were still creating code in assembly when I started (though I was never any good at it!), though I started with BASIC. Since BASIC was an interpreted language, its interpreter would write the assembly langua...
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