2026-05-17 -  IGN's perfect review score for Mixtape sparked a debate about gameplay, interactivity, and what a video game actually is. Having finished it, I think a ten out of ten is hard to justify no matter which definition you use.

2026-05-10 -  Brian Armstrong is bracing against market volatility with a flatter org chart, hands-on managers, and fleets of AI agents. But Coinbase's pivot comes with its own contradictions – and exposes it to new risks.

2026-05-03 -  From my travels on the small web to Steven Pressfield's theory of creative Resistance, this month's Field Notes is about people who create things because they care – not to chase clout, acclaim, or riches.

2026-04-26 -  Big Tech spent years subsidising AI access to build the habit. Now those subsidies are ending. With prices rising and AI embedded in core processes, businesses need to plan for continuity if it becomes unaffordable.

2026-04-19 -  My Muse tickets were cancelled three days before the show because Ticketmaster claimed I was a bot. To make things right, I had to navigate a Kafkaesque web of chatbots, generic responses, and delays.

2026-04-12 -  Before algorithmic bias and advertising took over, search felt different. Kagi is trying to take us back — stripping out ads and SEO spam, and actively promoting the small web that most engines quietly suppress.

2026-04-06 -  An 18th Century plate that keeps returning to mind, Sarah Wynn-Williams' damning account of life inside Facebook, and new music from Muse that takes me back to summer nights in the 2000s.

2026-03-29 -  F1's new rules have given us surface-level entertainment – but the racing feels artificial, the drivers are managing batteries instead of pushing limits, and its leaders seem reluctant to admit there's a problem.

2026-03-20 -  By redrawing every frame of gameplay using AI, Nvidia's new DLSS 5 technology makes assumptions about what your games should look like and overrides the developers' creative vision in favour of hyperrealism.

2026-03-15 -  Between a trip to Malta and a novel about memory-eating monsters, I thought a lot this month about what we actually need. The answer, it turns out, fits in a hotel room with a book and an espresso.