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The Price of Our Buying Mistakes Is About to Change

AI Can One Shot It. I Can't.

The first attempt gets me surprisingly far. Then I start figuring out what I actually want.

Bigger Pie, Thinner Slice, Better Customers

AI is creating far more questions than search ever handled, and each answer names only a few businesses. Which few depends on what the AI knows about the person asking, and on what it can find about you.

Bigger Models Can't Fix What Nobody Wrote Down

Everyone's racing to build smarter AI, and the missing piece is still in your people's heads.

Meet Hagrid, the Grok Bot organizing our kids

I have nine Grok Bots now, and they've changed how our family keeps up. Here's why you should give one a try.

Six Decades of the End of the World

Things humanity was supposed to die from during my lifetime.

Rank Is Too Volatile to Be the Whole Story

Ask Your AI To Warn Someone About You

Stated Preference, Revealed Preference, and AI Memory

What people say they want, and what their clicks show.

Great Timing, Cursor

Origin Brings Code Hosting Into Cursor

Zero to Chief of Staff

The Fastest On-Ramp To Personal AI Yet

AI Is the Surface

The MCP Debate, the Dashboard Problem, and the Open Source Turn Are One Story

Economics When AI Shows Up

Six Famous Theories, and What AI Does to Each One

From Torque to TORC

Tokens Measure What You Spent. TORC Measures What You Made.

I don't want to be a user anymore

Software is going away, and that is the best thing that could happen to the companies smart enough to see it.

The Token Exchange

AI usage is starting to behave less like software consumption and more like a market with exchange rates.

Optimism Needs Memory

AI will not make companies faster if the company cannot remember what actually happened.

AI Is Adopting Us

Opus 4.8 is a reminder that the adoption curve is moving under our feet

AI Agents Need Real-Time Data

Google is putting agents inside Search. Now the boring facts have to be current enough to use.

Grounding Needs To Know When Facts Expire

Stable knowledge, context, and live state do not decay at the same speed.

The AI Job Fear Mirror

We trust our own context, then forget everyone else has one too

The AI Multiplier on Your Career

Why adoption is not proficiency, and why the next five years widen the gap between operators and the middle.

The API Is the UI Now

Why one company killing their UI and another letting anyone conjure a UI in seconds point at the same consumer reality

The Second Brain Finally Works

After Years of Trying, LLMs Made Knowledge Graphs Actually Usable