AI
Future Shock Squared
Toffler warned us about the disorientation of too much change too fast. He didn't warn us it would compound.
AI
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What If a Wellness Cruise Could Offer What Your Doctor Can't?
In the fall of 2029, a motor yacht sat anchored twenty-eight miles offshore. On board, a doctor was offering treatments not available on the mainland.
AI
It Published the Newsletter. Then It Forgot.
Most AI agent memory systems are built on semantic search. Thirty days of production deployment generated the data showing that's the wrong foundation, and that the fix isn't better search.
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What If Your Writing Style Is a Fingerprint?
LLMs can now identify anonymous internet users by their writing style alone, for about four dollars per person. Every pseudonymous post ever written is retroactively exposed.
The Signal
The Signal — March 12, 2026
Meta builds its own chips to loosen NVIDIA's grip, OpenAI publishes a prompt injection defense playbook, and an AI bot spends a week hacking GitHub Actions pipelines.
AI
Amazon-Perplexity Is Also an Accessibility Fight
Why the Amazon-Perplexity dispute may become an ADA access test for AI agents, not just a platform-control or anti-bot fight.
Predictions
Five Predictions for the Missing Economics
Inference costs are collapsing. Agents are buying things. GDP can't see the output. Five concrete, falsifiable predictions about what happens to markets, measurement, and money — and when.
Analysis
The Missing Economics
AI inference costs are falling 10x per year. The economic frameworks we use to understand markets, productivity, and growth weren't built for this. Five critical pieces are missing.
Predictions
The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: When Will AI Actually Teach Our Kids?
A three-tier prediction on AI tutoring, from classroom copilot to Nell's autonomous mentor
AI
The Wrong Metrics for the AI Economy
A Substack post wiped billions from the market this week. The scarier part is what's already happening underneath the headline numbers.
AI
Cyberpsychosis Is Real — No Implants Required
There's a string of side missions in Cyberpunk 2077 that most players remember long after the main story fades. Your fixer, Regina Jones, keeps calling with the same basic setup: someone in Night City went too far with the cyberware and snapped. Your job is to go deal