The sudden rise of mobile gambling is leaving people ruined and unable to resist the temptation on their phones, so much so that experts and gamblers alike tell me they are worried about an oncoming national crisis. vice.com/en/article/ake… For this piece, I spoke with people who have recently entered Gamblers Anonymous.

All of them became addicted to gambling via their phones, which they said made it easier to hide and harder to quit. The effects on both their finances and relationships were heartbreaking.

I spent a lot of this year trying to figure out why VCs seem to love Web3 so much—and how that global pivot to Web3 is warping the tech industry. Here is my best attempt at an answer. vice.com/en/article/jgm… While a lot of Web3 founders seem genuine in their goal of creating a better internet, there is little doubt that tech is now full of people bolting on Web3 elements in order to garner investor interest and survive.

My latest story tries to disentangle and otherwise unpack the surprisingly creative, wildly speculative, occasionally tense, and always weird world of metaverse real estate.

“There’s a lot of hype, and it's not healthy,” one CEO told me.
vice.com/en/article/z3n… The excitement surrounding the metaverse is as clear as it can be premature.

The same speculator who told me metaverse real estate could become “the most desirable" on Earth—and that Decentraland will become the next Facebook—also admitted he doesn’t spend much time there RN.