Taste is not just prescient. It's also a lagging indicator. It shows up when engineering alone is not enough. Conventional wisdom is that taste enables you to see into the future. Tastemakers are meant to see ahead. Yet, they often don’t have the opportunity to influence tastes
What happens when you give Claude skills
A book club discussion with Brown Papas Unite
Last week at dinner, the conversation shifted to Universal Basic Income (UBI): Are we building systems to help people keep up, or to pay them to get out of the way? Someone referred to it as the permanent underclass. The conversation got quiet because this outcome is plausible, and many
The Clash of Inspiration and Order
And why governance tends not to be dynastic in America.
Tokens Don't Lie
Why Transactions Build Relationships - Part II
How the U.S. is managing the dollar for higher margins and why the UAE just became the first premium customer
How they locked out competition before consumers even arrived
Where is the equilibrium point?
If you wanted to slow a civilization down ...
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They say aliens might already be here.
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And the physics of volatility decay
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How AI Changes One but Not the Other
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Once you see the bars, you can’t unsee them.
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Implemented in an artificial, always-on way
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Require applied friendship
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I know a plumber ...
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Or is it a leak?
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pattern matching you to opportunities you’d realistically act on
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Why maximizing shareholder value starts with one person.
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Fun experiment
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Perth immediately popped into my head after seeing Bo ride a bike for the first time without any help. I was fortunate to enjoy and capture the moment. I felt joy, but like the song also haunted by the awareness of time, fragility, and what it took to get here.