A tech billionaire, a beach and a dog who can't read signs

#458: What a small, brown act of civil disobedience tells us about how tech's power and a growing wealth imbalance is hurting the things we love...

A month ago, a Silicon Valley insider reached out to me after 30 years inside California’s magic-money-making-bubble. He wanted to share.

That newsletter - Don’t Be Evil was always too low a bar - has become one of my most talked about guest posts.

He wrote about his 8,000-mile drive across America with his dog Paco meeting people and putting faces to the damage the addictive tech he helped create is causing.

Now Arthur Morgan (IRL) is back after he and Paco had an unexpected encounter with a tech billionaire on a deserted beach...

Welcome to new subs over the past few days from the newsdesk at Bloomberg in New York, the data intel team at the UK’s Independent in London, broadcaster NPR in Washington, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in New Jersey, the CEO of Belgium’s news agency Belga, the tech, media and telco leadership team at Deloitte, internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare in San Francisco, information wellness platform Readocracy in Toronto, publisher growth and subscriber …