Tag: newsletters
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The Copy and the Guru
Use AI to improve how you think and work, not replace and multiply you. 🔗 The Copy and the Guru
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Muskism as Fordism
The authors propose Muskism as the successor to post-Fordism, with a regime of accumulation built on state symbiosis, vertical integration, and survivalist tech, and a mode of regulation thinned to a “fan contract” plus racialized threat. Unlike Fordism or post-Fordism, Muskism is oriented toward social war rather than social peace, made possible by the collapse…
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Has the United States Bent the Health Care Cost Curve?
BPEA Spring 2026 conference draft from David Cutler and Lev Klarnet (Harvard). Argues the US has bent the health care cost curve, attributing the $977B 2024 spending shortfall vs. 2010 forecasts to cost-saving technology, demand-side changes, supply elasticity, healthier population, and slower price growth. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Has the United States Bent the Health…
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The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism
Who knew you could have architecture cartoons? 🔗 The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism
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The AI Conversation Is Moving Too Fast to Be Comprehensible
The pace of AI evolution is leaving most people disoriented, dividing enthusiasts and skeptics, and raising deep societal anxieties without a clear vision of the future. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The AI Conversation Is Moving Too Fast to Be Comprehensible
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Information Cleaner
Removing ads and paywalls as a social good: An Information Cleaner is a person who takes in all the material being published in our information atmosphere and cleanses it: they make it transformable, searchable, modifiable, accessible, free of ads and trackers, auditable, connected to other information where relevant, and so on. 🔗 Information Cleaner
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Something for the weekend – did AI kill off HR’s empathy along with the “lower-value human capital”?
A reflection on how AI-driven restructuring is displacing HR and middle management, while raising questions about corporate empathy and communications in mass layoffs. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Something for the weekend – did AI kill off HR’s empathy along with the “lower-value human capital”?
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What Anthropic and OpenAI launched in 72 hours has Wall Street paying attention
Deployment, not bigger models, is the next enterprise AI frontier, with finance as the first proving ground. Summarized by AI. 🔗 What Anthropic and OpenAI launched in 72 hours has Wall Street paying attention
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The Behavior-First Paradigm: Moving Mainframe Modernization Past LLM Wishful Thinking
No one remembers how these things work, or what they were supposed to do. Maybe the AIs can figure it out by observing what they do. 🔗 The Behavior-First Paradigm: Moving Mainframe Modernization Past LLM Wishful Thinking
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Google I/O: Did Google Just Ship the Full AI Stack?
The governance layer is the part of the stack that the keynote narrative left unclear…. It is split across the Antigravity IDE and Agent Platform, and the announcement narrative did not unify the picture. 🔗 Google I/O: Did Google Just Ship the Full AI Stack?
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Someone I Know is Taking Wegovy
Humans are supposed to just walk past an aisle of candy bars? 🔗 Someone I Know is Taking Wegovy
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Four years in the maelstrom
My most successful writing comes from when I have a breadcrumb into a maze that I can follow to its logical conclusion 🔗 Four years in the maelstrom
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Two Weeks in Cybersecurity… Still Cynical, Still Broken, Still Surprised
Then someone discovers firmware in a soldering iron and the whole IoT farce comes back into focus.” 🔗 Two Weeks in Cybersecurity… Still Cynical, Still Broken, Still Surprised
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On Google declaring war on the Web
“synthetic text extruders” 🔗 On Google declaring war on the Web
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Tyler Cowen: Wokeness Has Peaked. What Followed Is Worse.
This reads like the ultimate Cowen-Straussian piece: look at us now, with the world on fire…oh to be back in the days when all we debated were pronouns. 🔗 Tyler Cowen: Wokeness Has Peaked. What Followed Is Worse.
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The Old Guard
America’s unprecedented aging has created a gerontocracy where old politicians, voters, and elites monopolize power and wealth, stalling succession and progress. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Old Guard
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The Agentic P&L: Beyond the Empire of Headcount
Headcount as a unit of corporate prestige is becoming architectural debt; the federated agentic enterprise replaces departments with sharded knowledge enclaves and agent-to-agent handshakes, judged by contextual density, cost per cognitive outcome, decision provenance, and revenue per person. Summarized by AI. 🔗 The Agentic P&L: Beyond the Empire of Headcount
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Just aim the cannon correctly
Use LLMs to automate toil and low hanging fruit in the dev cycle. Adding features is fine, but it brings all the extra work and long term maintenance with it. 🔗 Just aim the cannon correctly
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You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs
I’ll get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as productive? One third the maintenance costs. Otherwise, you’re screwed.…
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