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Amazon’s Layoffs: Sign of Strategic Rewiring
Amazon no longer believes its old spending patterns create the same value.
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Highway FSD: Safe Enough to Relax, Not Enough to Look Away
Why the hardest part of self-driving isn’t the code — it’s the second before we take the wheel.
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How California’s Child-Safety Law Crowned the OS as King — and Why That Matters to Your Company
The unintended consequences of rewriting the balance of power between apps and the few platforms still standing — the operating systems
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J. Robert’s Last A-Bomb
On the silence that followed the first explosion and never really ended
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The Catastrophe of the Missing Nail
From fool-proof to fast-fix — and the quiet decay of engineering conscience
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Breakfast at the Edge of the Compute Bubble
AI's killer app hasn't shown up for breakfast yet. We're building infinite highways for cars that don't exist. The highways are very nice, though.
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AI Is the Child of Probability, Humans Are Prisoners of Causality
Einstein was wrong. Bohr was right. The universe runs on probability, not cause and effect. We've spent centuries pretending otherwise. Then we accidentally built something that doesn't pretend.
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Stop Running. Start Swinging (Master Yoda Is Watching)
From vampires to Jedi, from Hogwarts to Westeros — why the good guys need to stop bickering and start winning.
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Five Buckets for The Future And The Greatest Negotiation In Human History
The future collapses into a few stable outcomes, and most of them aren't pretty. A framework for thinking about where AI takes humanity, and why the negotiation happening right now is the most important one in history.
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The Lychee Road: It Is So Not About Lychee
A Reflection on Absurdism, Bureaucracy, and Why We’re All Chasing Fruit Sometimes
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The End of Silicon Valley (As We Knew It)
Startups are dissolving, Big Tech is absorbing, and engineers are left wondering whether they should stay in the game.
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Two Ways to Survive a War
Schindler's List used restraint. Life is Beautiful used charm as a trapdoor. Two films, two impossible situations, two completely different survival strategies. What they reveal about storytelling, moral courage, and the limits of hope.