History Has Re-Entered the Meeting: Trump in Beijing, Chips, AI Robots & Europe’s Digital ID Mess
For the first time in a long while, we skipped last Monday’s brief, but for a very good reason: after nine months of work, the…
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The shortcut wants the whole road
Kade Lovell, a 9-year-old boy from St. Cloud, Minnesota, signed up for the St. Francis Franny Flyer 5K, entered the modest and apparently navigable kingdom…
Sovereignty Is Not a PDF – Apple’s New Era and the Crisis of Material Reality
Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman on September 1, and that John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will…
A German Walks Into a Bar and Pays for the Apocalypse
A German walks into a bar. Of course he does. Not because he wants to. Not because he believes in fun. He walks in because…
How we Learned to Call Collapse a Transition While Everyone Important Stared at a Dashboard
Power without form does not produce control. It produces motion. And motion, however precise, however expensive, however satisfyingly destructive at the level of individual operations,…
Pain isn’t where your body is hurt, it’s where your brain thinks it is
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine this: you are sitting calmly, your hand resting on a table, the kind of neutral, unremarkable posture…
The Skeleton Under the Floor – between d’Artagnan’s and how attend a concert without being there.
I came across a small journalistic footnote this week, the kind of item that appears briefly, generates no outrage, no think pieces, no panels, and…
Cliff Young, the Man Who Ran Like He Was Chasing Escaped Chickens, and What Europe’s New “EU Inc.” Should Learn from Not Knowing the Rules
If there were ever a patron saint of accidentally humiliating professionals, it would be Cliff Young. Cliff Young was not built like a champion athlete….
A PowerPoint in a fleece vest
This Monday brief starts with Zuckerberg of all people. Why start a money brief with Mark Zuckerberg defending Elon Musk’s massacre of Twitter staff. Because,…
It’s Happening, Europe Has Launched Its Defense Plan Against Chinese Cars
This Monday brief is a little different, less of a brief, more of a rant, not because I have suddenly developed a taste for confessional…
The Pheromone Trail, the Vacuum, and the Spiral
We live in the golden age of technological enlightenment. By which I mean your vacuum cleaner now has a microphone, a camera, LiDAR mapping, WiFi…
BAYES, AUTOCOMPLETE, AND THE COST OF PRETENDING THIS IS INTELLIGENCE
Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important concept any rational adult can learn, which explains why almost nobody talks about it outside statistics departments…