Ramp down the AI rhetoric. “This is all complete nonsense.” Geohot argues the fear narrative around AI is toxic, and that the real move is to stop playing zero sum status games and “Go create value for others and don’t […]
How Al content detectors work. GPTZero says it “was one of the first AI detectors to pioneer the idea of using ‘perplexity’ and ‘burstiness’ to evaluate writing.” The piece explains why being consistent, typo free, or just writing technical prose […]
As life gets better. “As life gets better, people think it’s getting worse!” The thread calls this the Tocqueville Effect, or “prevalence-induced concept change”: when a problem gets rarer, we often expand the definition so we keep “finding” it anyway. […]
Every company needs a stuntperson. “In December 2025, hosted a mock “funeral” for the U.S. penny at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., marking the end of its 230+ year production run with hundreds of people in attendance.” Brianne Kimmel […]
Bundled tasks hide AI gains. “If you’re half as productive at debugging code you didn’t write, or less, the LLM saves you no time at all.” Philip Trammell’s point: automating one slice of a job can break the feedback loop […]
The sports marketing measurement playbook. “L5 is the land of Big Numbers. They look very impressive on slide decks (”450m IMPRESSIONS”). At this level, you are measuring activity, not outcomes.” Avinash Kaushik lays out a 5-level playbook for sports marketing […]
Management is the AI superpower. “As evaluating those results becomes increasingly time consuming, the value of being good at delegation increases.” Mollick’s take is that the bottleneck is shifting from doing the work to specifying, reviewing, and iterating, which makes […]
Avoid prisoner’s dilemmas. “The only satisfying solution to the prisoner’s dilemma is to avoid prisoner’s dilemmas.” A useful lens for work politics: lots of dysfunction comes from people acting rationally inside badly designed incentives. ~ learn more
Addicted to being useful. “I feel an almost physical discomfort about it, and a corresponding relief and satisfaction when I do go and solve the problem.” Many share this internal compulsion, finding satisfaction and fulfillment in solving puzzles and being […]
Ruthless capitalism’s mercy rule. The article argues, “Today’s American capitalism has eliminated the mercy rule,” underscoring a stark shift toward “ruthless capitalism” where success has no limits but failure entails severe consequences. The piece contrasts this with other countries that […]