Mike Solana

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  • Nov 26, 2025
    From my earliest memories, Thanksgiving meant a few important things: 1) I got to eat a turkey leg the size of my head at the dining room table while the adults talked about adult...
  • Sep 9, 2025
    Back in July, following an eight-month fetishization of Luigi Mangione on the far left, another gunman in New York City killed several people, including a mother of two...
  • Aug 6, 2025
    I. Scott Nolan only met Lee Robinson a couple weeks before, and under much more casual circumstances. But that afternoon of their second meeting they had business to discuss. The two...
  • Jul 23, 2025
    To goon or not to goon. Late last week, in the shadow of xAI’s Grok briefly turning into MechaHitler (roughly what it sounds like) with a rape fetish for left-wing...
  • Jun 13, 2025
    “Just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.” At this point, you’ve seen the viral clips, the rage bait, the hysterical celebrity reels : a little...
  • Jun 9, 2025
    And so, as it was foretold, the great tech right / populist right wing schism of 2025 begins. Yesterday, following several days of increasingly furious posting over President...
  • Jun 4, 2025
    While my career technically began in publishing in 2009, my journey through venture, and tech, and ultimately the kind of publishing I do today all began with Peter Thiel, who I...
  • May 21, 2025
    FAAck you, peasant. Best I can tell, the disaster started early last week, grew much worse Thursday, and rapidly accelerated early Friday, at which point the Mid-Atlantic...
  • Apr 3, 2025
    To slop or not to slop. It was one of those days on the internet. Last week, after the introduction of Open AI’s 4o model enabled advanced image generation in ChatGPT,...
  • Mar 20, 2025
    “World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no divisions between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, 1970 Ali Baba and the forty...
  • Feb 28, 2025
    Dad’s home. Yesterday morning, Amazon founder, part-time rocket man, and fellow billionaire media mogul Jeff Bezos announced The Washington Post’s opinion page was...
  • Feb 5, 2025
    Panic at the disco. Three weeks into Trump the Sequel’s executive order blitz, with technology industry legends standing at the president’s side, and figures...
  • Jan 21, 2025
    Trade war (we’re so back). Yesterday morning, as the company ran out of all the time it didn’t use to divest, TikTok (very briefly) died as it lived: purposely...