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Raw takes, honest retrospectives, and the stuff we wish someone had told us. Written and read by the people doing the work.

Episodes

  1. Collision course

    3D AGO

    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.

    16 min
  2. $110 billion and a boycott

    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.

    9 min
  3. Vibes vs. evidence

    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.

    13 min
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Raw takes, honest retrospectives, and the stuff we wish someone had told us. Written and read by the people doing the work.

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