Cory Doctorow·Jul 13Why aren’t AI companies competing directly with their customers?Why sell picks and shovels if you’ve already struck gold?A response icon33A response icon33
Fabian Owuor·Jun 16, 2025Of Sharks, Shovels, and Satoshis: Why Our Economy Thinks It’s a Treadmill and Earth’s Having a…By: The Ghost of Keynes Regretting Everything
Cory Doctorow·Mar 4, 2025There Were Always EnshittifiersMy March, 2025 Locus Magazine column.A response icon4A response icon4
Cory Doctorow·Feb 5, 2025MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizingIn the mirror world, community organizers are community predators.A response icon12A response icon12
Cory Doctorow·Jan 14, 2025Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5)Now we’re just haggling over the price.
Cory Doctorow·Jan 9, 2025Chapter One of “Picks and Shovels” (Part 1)My next novel is the origin story of Martin Hench, Silicon Valley’s greatest forensic accountant.