Entrepreneur
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
Inside a bundle you never see the price of plywood, tires or insurance fall, so real deflation arrives in the dark. Whether it reaches you depends on one right: leaving, with your AI’s memory and skills, whenever you want. … readCheaper Every Christmas
By 2034 the most common place to see solar panels will be fences, not roofs. A square foot of solar glass now costs less than most fencing, and upright two-sided panels harvest double digits more in winter. … readThe Fence Is the Panel
AI is about to make every screen, voice and inbox untrustworthy, and every product will be made by machines with nothing to lose. Trust is a loan of belief, and its collateral has always been your face. My advice to my students: be the face that your customers trust. … readBe the Face That Your Customers Trust
Galileo proved that nothing can grow much larger and keep its shape: weight outruns strength. AI just made one person the size of a department, and the people who thrive will be the ones who grow new bones. … readNo Giants Without New Bones
Extreme results are partly luck, and luck does not repeat, so whatever we do at our worst moment gets credit for a recovery that was already coming. Personal AI is the first thing that can keep that account honest, starting with itself. … readBetter Anyway
The inner ear reports change, not state: hold a turn long enough and it feels like level flight, and the correction feels like the error. Aviation beat this with instruments and the training to obey them, and everyone is about to need both. … readThe Leans
Whoever pays when a thing breaks decides how long it lasts. When the company owns everything and pays for every failure, planned obsolescence flips into planned durability, and things are built to last. … readBuilt to Last
A company can get worse by exactly as much as it costs you to leave. In a world where you subscribe to your whole life, portability is the one rule that matters: how the door works, the principles that keep it open, and what to do about it. … readRegulate the Door
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