Jake LaCaze

How much is any one item worth? The simple answer: It’s worth whatever someone will pay for it. But what gives art value, whether that value be monetary or otherwise? Uniqueness can’t be the answer, because very little in the world is truly unique. Unique means something is

Details are like salt. A dash adds flavor. But too much kills the dish. Any time there’s confusion, the answer may seem to be more detail. But more details doesn’t guarantee clarity. In fact, more detail may lead to more confusion. Every detail is one more thing for

Time was on Twitter’s side back in the network’s early days. Microblogging was novel and unestablished. And Twitter’s more ‘open’ approach in encouraging users to connect with strangers was a nice alternative to Facebook’s more closed approach of connecting with people you already knew offline. Twitter

Business communication is broken. We send so much time talking and writing (emails, text messages, Slack and Teams, etc.) but we don’t really communicate; we don’t transfer information. How do we solve this? Through tech? We’ve kind of tried that. First, we revolutionized written communication with email,

What qualifies as creativity? How much work does one need to put into something before he can consider himself creative? How much of creativity can be automated or outsourced before it becomes something else entirely? Hiring someone on Fiverr to design your logo isn’t considered a creative act. (We

On this blog, I recently made the case for why writers should kill more trees. That sentiment doesn’t apply only to writers. It applies to artists too. Drawers. Sketchers. Whoever. Art can connect. Art can heal. Art can save. So we need more of it. And we need it

We’re on the fast track to THE END. Or, so some people will tell you. Especially after the latest American presidential election. (To be fair, we’d be hearing the same if the other candidate had won. We’d just be hearing it from the other half of the

I recently finished listening to the audiobook version of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux. The subtitle tells it all: The book is about the craziness that was the first crypto bubble. (As Bitcoin’s price hovers around $70,000, another bubble

If I were a single-issue voter in 2024, I’d vote solely on how I felt the presidential candidates would handle antitrust cases against Big Tech, not because I think tech antitrust is America’s greatest issue but because it’s one of the few issues we have long-overdue positive

So many of us love tech yet have fallen out of love with the companies which comprise the tech industry. But how can that be? Data We’re tired of tech companies exploiting our data. ‘If you’re not paying for the product, then you’re the product’ suggests you