The Right Bubble About the Right Technology
The 2026 AI bubble doesn't measure overinvestment: Sequoia's $2.9 trillion gap reveals quarter-duration capital financing decade-long adoption.
Technology and Power
Technology became power the moment it began redistributing authority.
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Illegible Power Needs a Surface
The jacket that always wins Stitched into the lining of a blue work jacket, sold for $252, there's a message from Palantir's CTO, Shyam Sankar: constantly ask yourself if you're winning. If the answer is yes, nothing else matters.
New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird
Some 100 species of birds — loons, gulls, puffins, petrels — can both fly and swim. Inspired by these natural aquatic aviators, engineers at MIT and EPFL have designed a robot that swims underwater, leaps from the surface, and flies — much like a diving bird.
Technology and PowerFoundational essays
Sam Altman vs Mustafa Suleyman: The Compression Between Infrastructure and Regime
The clash between Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman is not a debate about technology: it is the separation between the speed of infrastructure and the capacity of the regime that frames it.
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The Extraction of Knowledge: When Intellectual Work Becomes AI Infrastructure
When human judgement starts training the systems, intellectual work stops being a cumulative asset and becomes raw material — and the value that once thickened over time changes hands.
Technology and PowerFoundational essays
The War of the Future Will Be Decided by Technology Companies, Not Just Armies
In the twenty-first century, military advantage is shifting towards the technological architecture that compresses the time between perception and decision.
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OODA Loop: Decision-Making Under Bounded Rationality
Under bounded rationality, advantage lies not in knowing more, but in iterating decision cycles more quickly.
Knowledge is Powerful, Be Powerful.
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