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The Bifurcation of B2B: Why the Mid-Market is a Mirage
_To scale from $1M to $10M ARR, founders must abandon the safety of the middle ground and embrace the high-stakes economics of the enterprise._...
Read ArticleBeyond Memorization: The 7 Levels of Thought for Deeper Learning
_Most of us were taught to learn by repeating information. But true mastery comes from ascending a ladder of cognitive skills, from simple recall to the art of ...
Read MoreThe Rise of the Builder: Management in the Age of Infinite Leverage
_Why the future of work belongs to generalists who can diagnose with data, treat with design, and manage AI as their primary team._...
Read MoreFrom Atari to AlphaFold: The Intellectual Arc of DeepMind's AGI
_How a quest to 'solve intelligence' moved from 8-bit games to the frontiers of biology and geopolitics._...
Read MoreThe Morphing World: Design in the Age of Active Matter and AI
_When materials become machines and algorithms become architects, the role of the designer shifts from shaping form to choreographing behavior._...
Read MoreThe Phase Change: Why 100% AI Adoption Is a Different State of Matter
_Moving from 'AI-assisted' to 'AI-native' isn't just about speed—it changes the fundamental physics of how software is built, managed, and scaled._...
Read MoreThe Era of AI Engineering: Beyond the Model Myth
_Why 88% of AI pilots fail, and why the future belongs to system architects, not just model builders._...
Read MoreThe Deployment Paradox: Why AI's Massive Scale Hasn't Yet Transformed Work
_We have 900 million weekly users and trillion-dollar infrastructure, yet the "God in a box" still lacks a job description._...
Read MoreThe Rise of the Go-To-Market Engineer: How Code is Rewiring Sales
_Why the future of revenue isn't just about hiring more salespeople—it's about building a technical architecture that scales trust._...
Read MoreContext Engineering: The Architecture of AI-Driven Development
_Why 'brownfield' codebases break coding agents, and how 'intentional compaction' restores their intelligence._...
Read MoreThe Capex Gamble: Navigating AI’s Platform Shift
_As hyperscalers pour billions into infrastructure, the path from 'vibes-based' forecasting to genuine economic disruption remains opaque._...
Read MoreThe Foundation Sprint: A Framework for Pre-Product Validation
_In the age of AI-accelerated building, the true competitive advantage is rigorous, structured thinking before a single line of code is written._...
Read MoreThe End of the Static World Assumption: Why AI Must Learn to Think in Real Time
_Current AI models assume the world waits for them to finish thinking. A new dual-threaded architecture changes the game for robotics and autonomous systems._...
Read MoreThe Entropy of the Internet: Navigating the Era of AI Slop
_When 50% of the web is synthetic, the value of human curation skyrockets. Here is how we survive the gray goo._...
Read MoreThe Great Decoupling: How AI Agents Are Rewriting the Startup Playbook
_Box CEO Aaron Levie on why the next generation of startups will outrun incumbents by turning services into software._...
Read MoreRethinking Genius: Why AI's Biggest Challenge Isn't Creativity, It's Us
_Before we judge AI for its lack of originality, we should ask a harder question: How creative and intelligent are humans, really? The answer has profound impli...
Read MoreBeyond Vibe Coding: The Power of Shared Blueprints in Human-AI Collaboration
_AI can feel like a brilliant but unreliable partner. A new approach using 'schemas'—shared representations for creative and organizational tasks—offers a path ...
Read MoreThe Virtuous Cycle: How Physics and Music Are Forging the Future of AI
_Generative AI is more than a tool for creating images and text. Its core principles are deeply rooted in physics, and its future lies in becoming both a precis...
Read MoreThe Genesis Moment: When Science Became a Compute Problem
_With the White House's 'Genesis Mission' and Anthropic's self-improving Claude 4.5, we have officially entered the era of industrialized discovery._...
Read MoreThe Age of AI Slop: How the Internet Is Becoming a Copy of a Copy
_The web is being flooded with low-quality, AI-generated content. This isn't just annoying—it threatens to degrade our information ecosystem and trap AI models ...
Read MoreThe New Startup Playbook: How AI Agents Create Asymmetric Leverage
_For decades, startups competed on speed while incumbents competed on scale. AI agents are collapsing that distinction, creating a new generation of hyper-lean ...
Read MoreBeyond Memorization: The 7 Levels of Thinking for True Mastery
_Most people confuse memorizing with learning, trapping themselves at the lowest level of thought. Here’s the framework to move from passive repetition to activ...
Read MoreWhy Andrej Karpathy Called AI 'Slop'—And What It Really Means for Builders
_A leading AI researcher's controversial claims seemed to pop the hype bubble. But a closer look reveals a practical roadmap for building valuable AI systems to...
Read MoreThe Next Generation of AI: Beyond Accuracy to Coherence and Self-Awareness
_Today's large language models are masters of trivia but struggle with consistency and self-knowledge. The next frontier in AI research aims to build models tha...
Read MoreThe Age of Research: Why Scaling Alone Won't Solve AI's Generalization Gap
_We are leaving the era of easy scaling and returning to the hard work of architectural invention. The next frontier isn't just bigger models—it's models that c...
Read MoreThe Unreasonable Path to the Top: Risk, Resilience, and the Realities of Executive Leadership
_A former Amazon VP pulls back the curtain on what it truly takes to climb the corporate ladder—a journey that demands more than just talent and hard work._...
Read MoreThe Economic Physics of Intelligence: Three Laws for the AI Era
_Why cognition is becoming a commodity, verification is the new bottleneck, and the future of automation is jagged._...
Read MoreBeyond the Chatbot: The New Frontiers of AI User Interfaces
_From autonomous agents to adaptive software, we're entering a new era of human-computer interaction. These are the emerging design patterns that define the fut...
Read MoreContextual Instantiation: When AI Personas Override Intelligence
_New research from Stanford and UT Austin reveals how assigning roles to AI agents can degrade reasoning and create harmful emotional loops._...
Read MoreThe AI Tool, Teacher, and Trap: Augmenting Minds or Atrophying Skills?
_Generative AI promises to revolutionize science and education. But as we integrate it into our lives, are we enhancing human intellect or engineering its decli...
Read MoreBeyond the Benchmark: Reframing Responsible AI with Rigor and Human Agency
_The race for AI performance often overlooks two critical components: a robust, multi-faceted definition of rigor and a clear purpose. Responsible AI isn't a co...
Read MoreThe End of Coding as We Know It: How AI Is Reshaping Software Engineering
_From manual craft to AI collaboration, the nature of programming is undergoing a fundamental shift. The new core skills aren't about writing code, but about di...
Read MoreThe Art of the AI Conversation: How We're Teaching Coders to Understand Us
_Current AI assistants are powerful but brittle, often failing in subtle ways. The solution isn't just bigger models, but a deeper, more collaborative dialogue ...
Read MoreThe What-If Machine: Can AI Agents Accurately Simulate Human Behavior?
_New research shows that AI agents, powered by large language models and rich qualitative data, can replicate human attitudes and behaviors with surprising accu...
Read MoreOpenAI's Sora: More Than a Video Generator, It's a World Simulator
_Sora isn't just about creating clips; it's a foundational step toward AI that understands and simulates our physical reality. This has profound implications fo...
Read MoreThe Dawn of Hyperdeflation: Can AI Solve the Problems It Creates?
_We are witnessing a 40x annual drop in the cost of intelligence while global anxiety over cost of living and unemployment hits a fever pitch. This is the story...
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