✍️ Writing
✍️ Click here to read some of my thoughts on the new NBER paper regarding collusion and common leadership in Silicon Valley:
As an MBA student, the NBER paper reinforces something that I have discovered again and again; while capitalism will always be a very imperfect system, it’s best possible form is when it conforms closest to a game. Meaning, when it is allowed to be playful, highly competitive, and free from both arbitrary rules and bullies. I’ve said it before, but I will say it again: being pro-business requires that one also be anti-monopolist.
✍️ Seven Minute Drill #2: bradley-andrews.com
🎵 My Thoughts On Dijon’s Album “Baby”: bradley-andrews.com
(Hint: I love it)
📚 Book Review: PLAYFUL by Cas Holman // bradley-andrews.com
I am an unwavering advocate of Cas Holman and her life project. Was grateful to get and read this book.
📚 Book Review: Without Feathers by Woody Allen // bradley-andrews.com
✍️ A Brief Note On Spotify Economics and The Cessation of the Penny: bradley-andrews.com
🗞️ I just posted my first ever short story: A Grimm Night on Central Park South. In honor of Halloween, I center it around the spookiest thing imaginable: Big Tech. I would love if you checked out this little piece of dark fiction and gave feedback. Please read and tell me what you think! 🎃🐺🏙️👻
✍️ Streamers Are Clowns: bradley-andrews.com
🗞️ 5 Easy Rules to Understand Technology. My latest newsletter is out now. I draw heavily from Melvin Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology, which I believe should be mandatory reading for all technologists and media ecology heads.
✍️ Third spaces are alive and well. A kind stranger in a coffee shop gave me this book to read last weekend. Read the full story here: bradley-andrews.com/2025/10/0…
🗞️ My new post “Long Live Everything” is out now:
It’s not the quality of a creative act that people necessarily respond to—it is the freedom that is represented in the act. The bendings of our culture lean so heavily toward criticism, consumption, and conformity that even the smallest hint of the alternative constitutes a mini-revolution. People who slant away from the well-worn paths tend to inspire others without even being conscious of it. When someone begins doing what they want—as opposed to just doing what they’re told—it gives courage for others to do the same.
✍️ I wrote some brief thoughts about the concept of ‘F**k You’ money & why I’m not surprised our billionaires persist in their moral malaise. I realize this is semi-political & therefore subject to polarization, but I hope the more pertinent theme I am trying to circumambulate comes through.
✍️ I wrote an open letter to the anonymous person who stole my shoes last night. 🥾🏃♂️
✍️ New post on the blog: Conversations With Dead People—Who’s On Your Mt. Rushmore?
Thinking alot about those special voices we internalize and the dead people we converse with.
In hip-hop, the Seven Minute Drill (made famous by J. Cole) is a songwriting exercise where an artist has 7 minutes to write a verse with no prep. I am short on time today, so decided to test myself. This is what came out. Will definitely use more often.
✍️ I wrote a brief journal entry on my blog about imagination, monotony, and a thirst for life. Here is a snippet:
But what Chesterton forgets is that many adults do experience this “eternal appetite” — it just requires that they fall in love first. After all, romance has many side-effects, and surrounding your beloved with an atmosphere of irrepressible timelessness is one of them. Lovers are hermetically sealed from dullness and become ever new. Can it be that children are just in love with the world in a way that adults are not?
✍️ New post on my blog: Moving From Curiosity To A “Thirst For Life”
Brief thoughts, simple, and thrown off quickly, but definitely a topic I’m going to be meditating on for a while.
