Generation is now free. Curation is now everything. One field saw this coming. The Inversion For most of human history, production was the scarce thing. Creating content, performing deep …
The Map Continues: The Power of the Translator
Most of us were raised on the myth of the "Deep Lane." We were told that the safest way to build a career was to find a niche, dig a very deep hole, and become the undisputed master of whatever was at …
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The Unsubscribe of the Mind: Attention, AI, and the Digestion Gap
This piece grew out of noticing a shift in my own attention. What I describe here is part of the Digestion Gap series, but it is also an attempt to understand a familiar experience in AI-saturated …
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The Age of Inference: When Machines Choose What You Believe
In 1951, Solomon Asch ran a simple experiment that refuses to die. He put a single student in a room with a group of actors pretending to mistake one line for another, and he watched ordinary people …
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Renting the Cold Start: Why “Understanding-as-a-Service” Will Reshape Everything
For two decades, the dominant strategy of the internet was simple: collect more behavior than your competitors, correlate it harder, and turn those correlations into recommendations. Amazon learned …
Stepstones, Not Moonshots: Leading Through the AI Shakeup
A century ago, apprenticeships were the scaffolding of work. You swept the floor, shadowed a master, and climbed rung by rung until you became one yourself. Today, AI is quietly dismantling that …
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