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A melting system holds its temperature while every bond inside it breaks. Joseph Black called the hidden energy latent, and it is the best description of this moment in AI: the flat chart is not proof that nothing is happening — it is what a melt reads like on a thermometer. … readLatent Heat
A father in Ohio, a daughter who prices a billion lives, a grandson with no keys to inherit, and twelve companies that became the economy without a vote. The own-nothing series, told as a short novel. … readThe Last Deed
Once the plans are everywhere, a dozen companies are the economy. Break them up or run them by rule and the machine does not stop, it moves: Atlas shrugs by building the next factory somewhere else. … readIf Atlas Shrugs
Nobody will vote for a world where you own nothing. We will take the deal in front of us, the way we took the smartphone, and a new order will emerge from free choices alone: communism’s Trojan horse, built entirely out of capitalism. … readThe Trojan Horse
At full vertical integration, Musk’s three plans, Essential, Living and Health, cost $85 to $500 a person a month to supply, self-insured. A billion people come to $3.5 to $6 trillion a year, and the subscription’s margin carries the half who pay nothing. … readFeeding the Machine
The fixed price was never a law of nature. It was a machine built in the 1870s because a floor of hired clerks could not haggle at scale, and AI agents just made negotiation free again — the price tag is losing the only job it ever had. … readThe Price Tag Was a Machine
Two strangers who cannot talk still find each other, because some answers are obvious to both. For all of history the obvious answer was made of shared history. AI is about to make it out of a shared machine, and this time the clock has an owner. … readThe New Grand Central
A book for my students on the one sentence I teach about careers: let your first employer be your first customer. Why firms hire, how the job became a bundle, why low fixed costs are the whole strategy, and what your own AI changes about the line between employee and vendor. … readFirst Customer
When buyers cannot tell good from bad, Akerlof showed in 1970, the market does not fill with junk — it empties. AI has stripped the warranty that effort used to stamp on every written word, and the markets that ran on unsigned text are about to learn what used cars already knew. … readThe Warranty on Words
Humans have spent about an hour a day in motion since we had villages. Every faster vehicle was sold as a way to save time, and every one widened the city instead. AI is the fastest vehicle ever pointed at the mind, and the same law says your day will not get shorter. It gets wider. … readThe Day Gets Wider