The media industry, like politics, has been stuck in a scarcity mindset—managing decline instead of building for the future. In... more

AI is giving rise to vibe coding while old conventions fall away. Thinking on your feet is now more important... more

Online education company Chegg is suing Google for AI Overviews and might become the first major company felled by AI.... more

Troy’s at “advanced” tennis camp, so Brian and Alex discuss the shifting dynamics of the newsletter and video game markets.... more

Media has never been neat, but it’s getting messier. This week, Brian and Troy explore how AI is reshaping the... more

This week, we examine the great realignment as tech and government unite to assert US tech dominance over ideas of... more

This week, on the heels of OpenAI releasing Deep Research, we assess whether AI has caught on with regular people... more

The nature of work and careers is undergoing profound changes that are often obscured by debates over return-to-work mandates. This... more

Our tech overlords reported for duty to Washington while Troy perused the powder at Davos. This week, we go beyond... more

Economic growth requires labor productivity. We all aspire, in our own ways, to be productive, if only because our productivity... more

This week, we discuss the outlook in 2025 for legacy media (not great), alternative media (much better), chat as a... more

Podcasting challenges late nite, lying in media, shopping as content, super consumers and Alex rediscovers America at Disney.Watch us on... more

Tech has swallowed media, and is increasingly swallowing other industries and accruing power along the way. Plus: why adding a... more

Prediction market + news; media’s bifurcating star system; media’s management-labor divide; AI + browsers; car talk; LinkedIn cringeWatch us on... more

This week: The internet comes to life as spectacle, Elon proclaims you are the media, why publishers need to get... more

This week on People vs. Algorithms, we unpacked London’s charm, the shifting dynamics of media and search, and why Google’s... more

The election in many ways confirmed what many had suspected: the information space has superceded and subsumed the traditional media... more

We run through the implications of the return of Donald Trump to the presidency after an election that saw the... more

Complex is a digital media survivor. It has lived many lives, including as a magazine, a dot-com, an ad network,... more