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Absorption leaves one encounter with human attention: the exception. When an absorbed matter has to come back, the return should cost the person one decision, and that moment is where a business is still seen. … readWhen the Matter Comes Back
A customer can stop looking at your business without ceasing to be your customer. Absorption changes the rules: the outcome must be maintained while the person’s attention participates elsewhere. … readServe the Customer Who Is Not Looking
Search meets a person whose attention is already participating. Absorption lets the business happen without the delegated matter remaining in human attention: Actual matches Expectation, R equals one, and ln(1) equals zero. … readDelegate It: The Absorption of Business
When the jobs go, the first thing we lose is not income or meaning. A job was the signal that told billions of private clocks what day it is, and a machine that never closes cannot give anyone the time. … readThe Time-Giver
AI is the first tool with more moves than its operator, and a 1956 law explains why that is not the end of control: you were never required to match the machine’s moves, only to know the one number you defend. Control migrates from the moves to the criterion — and two buttons are enough to hold it. … readTwo Buttons Are Enough
Billions of people chat with AI while only a few million let it work in the background. The bridge between them is an AI that finishes the work unasked and holds the state change for Accept or Reject — and the notification everyone wants is Done. … readThe Notification Everyone Wants Is Done.
Each firm that swaps a paycheck for a server keeps the savings and spreads the lost spending across everyone. That is a tragedy of the commons, and the commons is aggregate demand. … readThe Automation Tragedy: How the Free Market Is Overgrazing Aggregate Demand
AI is bought like capital but does the work of labor. Stiglitz, Korinek and Acemoglu agree that strains the models economics runs on, and disagree sharply about whether it breaks them. … readCapital That Clocks In: Why Economists Say AI Won’t Stay in the Capital Box
America’s next industrial era will not recreate the factory of 1978. It will make flexible domestic production callable by thousands of specialized businesses. … readAmerica Will Become a Manufacturing Nation Again. You Won’t Recognize the Factories.
The phone is mine, the account says jim@oracle.com, and an administrator I have never met controls what that account may do — yet the containment runs my way, by specification, in Apple’s and Google’s own documentation. The unsettled question is where the model of me lives, and who can delete it. … readMy Employer Is a Node