A fire lieutenant yells “get out” with no idea why. Seconds later the floor drops into the basement. That moment is the whole episode: you carry an analysis engine older…

One week in July 2026. Two Chinese frontier models, released open-weight, free to download. Kimi K3 beat Claude at frontend code. Qwen 3.8 claims it’s “second only to Fable 5.”…

Somebody I know spent twelve days building a tool to check if domain names were available. Domain registrars do that for free (it’s their whole business model, they WANT you…

In 1935, the best pilot in the US Army climbed into the most advanced airplane ever built and was dead ninety seconds later. Not sabotage, not a storm… he forgot…

People are lazy. I mean it as a compliment. Laziness is the foundation of the entire economy you and I work in — there’s real research (PNAS, “Buying Time Promotes…

I went in ready to roll my eyes. A glossy business book about leading with AI. Another firehose, another guru, another deck. Then I read it. And the uncomfortable part…

OK. Two ways the world ends with machines that copy themselves. The loud one is grey goo. Little nanobots eat everything, planet turns to sludge. Fine. Scary. Got it. It’s…

Welcome back. About a month ago I was at a working dinner with peer CTOs and a head of AI Enablement, and someone pitched a product that automates meeting transcription…

Snake oil salesmen never left. They just learned to code. My friend keeps rockets in the sky, and he still feels like he’s losing to a landing page. I tried…