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A show about technology and life.

Mar 20

The quiet breakthrough

The sector generating the least spectacle is producing the most substance. One week in March 2026 made it impossible to ignore.
Mar 16

Concrete and kilowatts

AI stopped being a software story and became an infrastructure story. Nearly $700 billion in physical buildout is reshaping energy markets, breaking political coalitions, and sending electricity bills climbing.
Mar 13

The confidence machine

AI's most dangerous property isn't inaccuracy. It's that wrong answers arrive with the same confidence as right ones, and humans aren't equipped to tell the difference.
Mar 10

Consequences

Every major AI story from the past week follows the same script: something goes wrong, the responsible party performs a choreographed response, and the actual consequences land somewhere else entirely. Not a conspiracy. An operating model.
Mar 6

Collision course

In a single week, every thread of the AI story caught fire at once. Boycotts, chip controls, a five-year plan, frozen acquisitions, and an energy pledge. It stopped being a technology story. It became geopolitics.
Mar 2

$110 billion and a boycott

Tobacco, oil, and defense stocks all climbed while public opinion turned against them. The OpenAI boycott fits the same pattern — except for one structural difference.
Feb 27

Vibes vs. evidence

The gap between what we're spending on AI and what we're measuring from it isn't a mystery. It's a pattern — and it's playing out exactly the way it did with computers, electricity, and the dot-com bubble.

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Clarity amidst noise

Mar 26

wolfclan

I just listened to the “vibes vs evidence” episode and compliment the narrator for his strategic analysis and earlier analogies of technology inflections that enable a more meaningful understanding of the AI journey. Looking forward to the other episodes.

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