Writing
Essays by David Gabeau on consumer AI, social networks, open infrastructure, crypto, and building products.
Serendipities in San Francisco
Notes from my first two weeks in San Francisco: brain-computer interfaces, AI, building Cosign, and a lot of coffee.
Building Cosign with the a16z New Media Team
Building Cosign with the a16z New Media team to increase people’s surface area for luck and connect talent to opportunity.
5 lessons from building social AI for 160,000 users
What building Zumi for 160,000 users taught me about reciprocal care, multiplayer AI, generative stories, latency, and trust.
Crypto’s Broadband Moment
Why crypto’s failed consumer experiments look less like a verdict on demand and more like the internet before broadband made the application layer possible.
Where Does Value Accrue in Pearl?
A note on Pearl, the proof-of-useful-work network that mints the PRL token by running real AI workloads on GPUs, and whether the token actually captures the value it creates.