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How technology changes work, education, rights, demographics, and the way people think.
2026
Washington Post's Cost-Per-Story Score, and Its Blind Spot
The Washington Post now tracks cost per story and reader response scores as management metrics, but what do these numbers leave out?
SocietyBlock Cuts 4,000 Jobs, Reviving the AI Tax Debate
Jack Dorsey's layoffs and Andrew Yang's push to tax AI raise a hard question: who pays when machines do the work?
SocietyVirtual Cards Built Just for AI Agents
How much spending power should an AI agent get? Prepaid limits, approvals, and dispute handling are the open questions.
SocietyWhy Chinese Firms Are Racing to Install OpenClaw
From install lines to messenger hookups, here's what my Chinese clients are telling me about OpenClaw's sudden rise.
SocietyHow Yakult Delivery Workers Check on Their Neighbors
Japan's Yakult Ladies and Korea's hy delivery workers quietly track elderly customers' well-being during routine drop-offs.
SocietyClaude's Military Use: Do Principles Hold in Contracts?
I trace Anthropic's clash with Washington through statements and contracts, separating military AI use from human control.
SocietyWhat Huxley's 1961 Interview Taught Me About Algorithms
Huxley's 1961 BBC interview and Island made me question what recommendation algorithms actually optimize for.
SocietyKorea's Top 10 Groups Plan 51,600 Hires—But Where?
Behind Korea's big hiring numbers, most students I meet still picture a Seoul headquarters, not a regional factory floor.
SocietyOrwell and the Jargon That Passes for Explanation
Rereading Orwell, I revisit the AI jargon in my own consulting work and ask whether specific language actually drives execution.
SocietyWhat the Pentagon Pizza Theory Data Actually Measures
Before treating pizza-shop foot traffic as a war signal, I checked what the data really tracks and how the comparisons hold up.
SocietyAI Skills Aren't Enough Without Good Taste
People keep asking me what to do in the AI era, and I keep coming back to judgment, not just tool skills.
SocietyChina Now Grants PhDs for Bridges and Welding, Not Papers
China now lets bridge and welding engineers submit their work, not a thesis, for a PhD—here's what that reveals about proving expertise.
SocietyKnowing Jensen Huang's Habits Won't Make You Jensen Huang
Judging founders and building GTM strategy: same effort, different results—learning a success story isn't the same as living it.
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