Archive - Elided Opinions

Restaurants, Friction & The Agentic Era

An AI Enabled Mashup

Jun 9 •

Delivering Presence

The Uber x Opentable Partnership

Jun 3 •

May 2025

You Can't 86 Friction

TL;DR (begrudgingly as it feels antithetical to the topic at hand to eliminate the friction of actually reading the article)

May 21 •

7 Powers and Power Law Analysis Tool

May 16 •

Winner Take Most

Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers and the Nature of Power Laws

May 15 •

War Makes for Strange Bedfellows

Doordash Siege on the Food System

May 6 •

Tell Me What You Want

What you really, really want

May 2 •

April 2025

First Principles: Wrangham Style

Did cooking make us human? If so, what now?

Apr 22 •

The Future is Franchised

Before we get started, I am speaking on a panel at The Chef Conference in Philadelphia today and at the conference for a couple days.

Apr 4 •

March 2025

Alone, Listless Dining Table

The Relationship Between Eating With Others & Happiness

Mar 26 •

Dot Collecting, Dot Connecting

volume 2, issue 1

Mar 21 •

Restaurant Vibes, Coding

Restaurant Vibecoding

Mar 18 •

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