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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 than language, and it can’t talk. So I’m going to teach you to read tarot cards (yes, seriously) because the cards are the keyboard. Forged…
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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.” Half the market panicked, the other half threw a party, and somewhere in the middle a very old question got skipped entirely: who poured the…
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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 to find a name). When I asked how much time the tool saved, the answer was “several hours.” Twelve days in. Several hours out. And…
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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 one item. Boeing’s fix was a single sheet of paper, and that sheet of paper conquered aviation, then surgery, then somehow mutated into the thing…
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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 Happiness”) showing that paying someone else to carry the boring tail of a task makes you measurably better off. Building something is the cheap part.…
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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 is the book’s not the problem. I am. This one’s a review of *The AI-Driven Leader* by Geoff Woods, and it’s also a bit of…
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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 the other one that’s been keeping me up. There’s a manga, *Blame!*, where the machines don’t eat the world — they just build it. Forever.…
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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 so nobody on your team ever has to take a note again. I pulled my I/O Psychology hat off the shelf and pushed back, because…
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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 to tell him why. So this episode is about that scoreboard. I walk you from an 1890s snake-oil wagon parked outside a general store in…
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I was standing in my kitchen at 9 at night trying to add a four digit number to my security system so my son could let himself in after he comes back from school. That was the entire task. Four digits, one kid, one door. I opened myADT on the browser the way I had…