Pinnedsomak royAn Ouija Board for your mind: writing as a thinking toolWriting has been maligned as something only writers do. This piece is an attempt to set things right.Feb 3, 2023Feb 3, 2023
Pinnedsomak royWhat tech needs to understand to go direct-to-readerTech will have to deconstruct media in great depth to build its own media armJun 29, 2021Jun 29, 2021
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somak royBarbie the movie: the director is hereby advised to chillMattel needs Barbies on office desks. Maybe handbags. A union of pink and commentary ensues. The rigor mortis of self-awareness slows down…Sep 12, 2023Sep 12, 2023
somak royThe key to a second innings in tech — make words upMid-career folks, if the question of time slipping away has been bothersome lately, consider not a startup but a three letter acronym. Or…Aug 7, 2023Aug 7, 2023
somak royLet’s go to war over cubiclesCan I, on behalf of misanthropes everywhere, demand the return of the cubicle?Aug 1, 2023Aug 1, 2023
somak royGenerative AI will kill the Web as we know itThe Internet will have to be reimagined.Aug 1, 2023Aug 1, 2023
somak royAn Oppenheimer reviewNothing is said in a Christopher Nolan movie that doesn’t cause the fate of the universe to hang in balance.Aug 1, 2023Aug 1, 2023