EMERGENT LOOPS

13
Nov

Don't Fight Data Moats

Understanding how data moats form isn't about mourning losses. It's about identifying which markets still have
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12
Nov

Innovation Serves the Invariant

Every few years, someone declares a revolution. Vinyl records became 8-track tapes became cassettes became CDs became MP3 downloads became
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10
Nov

You Can't Unlearn Instant

You're not addicted to instant gratification. You've been conditioned by irreversible infrastructure shifts. My mom bought
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24
Oct

Constraints Design Behavior

Twitter launched in 2006 with a 140-character limit borrowed from SMS. The constraint was technical, not philosophical. Users invented threading.
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08
Sep

PART 1: Recursive Lightning

What happens when your hammer starts building better hammers at 3am while you sleep? Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa
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18
Aug

The cure became the disease.

Slack was supposed to save us from email. Instead, it broke our focus. Email had boundaries—you checked it, then
17
Jun

You Can't Control Emergence

There's a marketing campaign running right now that's about to backfire spectacularly. And the team who
05
May

The Recursive AI Mirror

AI training reshapes us. When OpenAI's thumbs-up system transformed GPT-4o into a sycophant, it exposed our evaluation blind
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