Deep thought
The Tower and the Tenants
Why the GOAT debate keeps asking the wrong question — and what happens when you ask the right one Every few years, we stage the same argument. A new icon arrives — the numbers are bigger, the reach is wider, the empire is more deliberately constructed and the internet splits into two camps: the loyalists […]
The Forgotten Risk Contract
Here is the deal currently on offer. You leave a stable career, drain your savings, recruit people who believe in you, and spend three years building something that has a real chance of mattering. If you succeed, you get to do it again with someone else’s money and a smaller slice. If you fail — […]
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The Last Signal
I have spent the better part of a year living under a digital outcropping. My only companions have been large language models… mathematical echoes of collective human thought. Together, we have built architectures for products that may never be inhabited. We have entertained dialogues so expansive they could, in a different era, have served as […]