A woman who doesn't look entirely unlike Elizabeth Holmes stands in an orange prison jumpsuit before blazing piles of burning money, surrounded by ash, skulls, broken unicorns, and shattered tech logos in a dystopian wasteland.

I've Watched This Movie Before: Why Every Tech Bubble Follows the Same Script

My garbage can got repossessed in 2001. I know that sounds absurd, but it perfectly captures the surreal devastation of the dot-com crash. One day I was a young engineer at a hot startup, stock options growing more valuable by the week, new house, first baby on the way. The next day the company vanished, my options were worthless, and we were losing everything—including our municipal garbage service. For months afterward, I drove hours from home for consulting gigs, watching the wreckage of Silicon Valley’s first great bubble. Half the internet companies disappeared within two years. 48% of them, gone. Along with hundreds of thousands of jobs and families like mine. ...

Mark Zuckerberg stylized as Alfred E. Neumann, the doofy mascot of MAD Magazine. Text overlay reads: What, me worry?

Meta's Pattern of Failed Big Bets: From Metaverse Meltdown to AI Brain Drain

I never bought into the Mark Zuckerberg hype. Sure, Facebook was huge, but let’s be honest—the guy struck me as socially clueless from day one. He got really lucky with an idea and timing that built his early social media fortune, but that doesn’t make him a visionary. It makes him someone who caught lightning in a bottle once. Here’s the thing that’s always bothered me: how did someone so fundamentally unsuited for leadership end up defining what social media standards should be for the entire world? ...