Ed Zitron — Where's Your Ed At / Better Offline
About #
Tech industry commentator and CEO of the PR firm EZPR, writing sharply critical analysis of AI industry economics, unit economics, and hype cycles. A former games/tech journalist, he has become one of the most prominent skeptical voices on generative AI’s business fundamentals, data center economics, and “the rot economy.”
How this journal works #
Checked every 4 days: each new post or episode in Ed Zitron’s own feeds (newsletter, podcast) becomes one entry, dated by publication and summarised in a few bullets.
Entries
- The Mind of Larry Ellison w/ Tom Dotan
- AI Had Better Work Out
- Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country
- Monologue: Anthropic Slows Down
- Premium: Venture Capital Is Killing Itself
- The Hater's Guide To Bonds With Rob Wigglesworth
- Annualized Enron Rate
- Monologue: Australia's Dodgiest AI IPO Is A Pale Horse
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To Junk
- "Cycular" Financing w/ GamersNexus
- Credit Crunch
- Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden
- Premium: How Has AI Changed The Economy?
- Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI
- Dead Money
- Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To AI Debt (Part 2)
- The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky
- Where're All The AI Chips?
- Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To AI Debt (Part 1)
- Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport
- AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands
- Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To Broadcom
- Managing The Situation
- Concentration Risk
- Monologue: Concentration Risk
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To Circular Financing (Part Two)
- LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
- Hyperscale Normalization
- Monologue: Into The Jensenverse
- Premium: The Hater's Guide To Circular Financing (Part One)
- No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport
- The AI Hater's Manifesto
- AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.
- Don't Look Up
- Monologue: AI Hits A Wall
- Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump
- Premium: How Much Money Does AI Need?
- The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus
- What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
- Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive
- The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson
- Premium: AI Is Getting Way Too Expensive
- Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?
- AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (w/ Nik Suresh)
- The More You Buy, The More You Lose
- Premium: The Hater's Guide to Oracle (Part 2) / Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?
- The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy (with Ed Elson)