Alex Danco's Newsletter

Infinite Jest belongs in the techno-optimist canon

A16Z Culture's most controversial book recommendation so far

Feb 25 • Alex Danco

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October 2025

Prediction: the Successor to Postmodernism

Originally published on a16z.substack.com

Oct 10, 2025 • Alex Danco

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August 2025

I'm joining a16z

I’m heading to Andreessen Horowitz!

Aug 12, 2025 • Alex Danco

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July 2025

A startup is a bundle, and Windsurf broke the bundle

We had a good thing going!

Jul 18, 2025 • Alex Danco

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March 2025

Scarcity and Abundance in 2025

I mean, what stage of the S curve is this?

Mar 27, 2025 • Alex Danco

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If you're first out the door, it's not called panicking

Four reads on the Trump economic narrative

Mar 13, 2025 • Alex Danco

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Wine tasting with Claude Shannon

Why we can’t resist a grain of truth within a crazy argument

Mar 6, 2025 • Alex Danco

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February 2025

10 Predictions for the 2020s: Midterm report card

In December of 2019, which feels like quite a lifetime ago, I posted ten predictions about themes I thought would be important in the 2020s. In the…

Feb 27, 2025 • Alex Danco

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Innovation takes magic, and that magic is gift culture

Silicon Valley's great trick: recasting well-worn business procedures as moments of gift exchange

Feb 21, 2025 • Alex Danco

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Have you ever seen a goth downtown?

Creativity after AI

Feb 14, 2025 • Alex Danco

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Manifest Destiny Returns

Alex Danco's newsletter is back (for a limited time)

Feb 8, 2025 • Alex Danco

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May 2022

Tokengated Commerce

A very special issue with Packy McCormick & Not Boring

May 2, 2022 • Alex Danco

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