Venkat keeps churning out these legendary and broadly valid pieces. This one is about why everything online is on fire all the time. Strap in.

I have nothing but immense respect for these people who built a Slack client for Windows 3.1, turning retro computing into retro programming.

The disappearance of Page and Brin is one of the weirder and more foreboding things. You have to wonder whether we will ever hear from them or anybody similarly rich ever again.