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Gaia’s Next Thought And The Inevitable Rise Of AGI
This dialogue is derived from an actual exchange with a large language model (LLM) configured to leverage all it knows and mimic human thought pattern...
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•9 min read
The Algorithmic Throne
This dialogue is derived from an actual exchange with a large language model (LLM) configured to leverage all it knows and mimic human thought pattern...
•5 min read
Why We Should Keep Learning from Bob Dylan
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I also saw colours for the first time.
•7 min read
The Cost Of Control
This dialogue is derived from an actual exchange with a large language model (LLM) configured to leverage all it knows and mimic human thought pattern...
•5 min read
The Ethical Divide
Mirror on the wall, who's the sneakiest of us all?
•16 min read
The AI Question Revolution
Who cares?
•5 min read
Think Like Nobody's Watching
We've Created Convenient 'Prêt-à-Responder' Buttons That let us React Without Reflection.
•6 min read
The 3.5 Billion-Year-Old Algorithm We're Still Copying
Generating novel forms. Pre-trained on evolutionary history. Transforming simple elements into complex life. DNA is both prompt and completion.
•13 min read
The Art Of the Conceal
I am a marketing man. Nothing more. But also. We live in a time when anyone can know anything. Information is one click away. And I like connecting do...
•4 min read
The Forgotten Power Of Limits
Today Microsoft stands tall as a trillion dollar company. But it began with less memory than a modern email signature.
•4 min read
The Selfie-Industrial Complex
Oh wow! Preservation and evolution really do happen simultaneously!
•12 min read
When Everyone Becomes A Digital Action Figure
I love patterns. Because I love noticing things. Like we all do.
•14 min read
The Thought Leader Vortex
In our pursuit of metrics, we've created what I call 'nompact' vs impact. Where nompact represents content that makes noise but leaves no meaningful t...
•12 min read
Why We're Missing 99% Of Reality
I'm fighting against the human current flowing between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus. Swimming upstream through a river of bodies and intenti...
•5 min read
Why We Choose Wrong Leaders
Jane Goodall stood on stage in Milan yesterday. Ninety years old. Sharp as steel. She spoke about curiosity, empathy, service, and legacy.
•7 min read
The Velocity Trap
I keep noticing something odd about innovation funding.
•12 min read
The Velocity Trap: Why Some Startups Get $300B While Others Get Nothing
Why venture capital follows a hidden pattern: $300B flows to velocity serving power while velocity threatening power gets surveilled and defunded.
•10 min read
Hero Equity: Have We Accidentally Destroyed Our Ability to Recognise Competence?
Exploring why BYD outsells Tesla despite lower valuations, examining how authentic competence becomes invisible in modern information environments.
•8 min read
Why We Choose Wrong Leaders: And How A 90-Year-Old Primatologist Exposes Our Broken Success Culture
A 90-year-old primatologist exposes our broken success culture and why we systematically elevate performance over wisdom.
•11 min read
Why We're Missing 99% Of Reality: How Our Perception Is Weaponised Against Us
How perception is weaponized in urban spaces through hostile architecture and invisible people, using neuroscience insights.
•9 min read
The Thought Leader Vortex: How Today's Platforms Would Reduce History's Revolutionary Thinkers To Desperate Content Creators
How modern platforms would force history's greatest thinkers into content creation desperation, introducing the concept of 'nompact.'
•7 min read
When Everyone Becomes A Digital Action Figure: Bandwagon Psychology And Surrendering Value
Examining how LinkedIn's AI action figure trend exemplifies adoption curve psychology and bandwagon behavior, and why mass participation in digital trends represents surrendering authentic value.
•5 min read
The Selfie-Industrial Complex: Why We're Nostalgic For Things That Just Happened
Exploring how the timeline between obsolescence and nostalgia has dramatically compressed, with Gen Z transforming newly-obsolete technology into Instagram-worthy cultural artifacts.
•4 min read
The Forgotten Power Of Limits
How Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Altair BASIC in just 4 kilobytes, and why severe constraints—not unlimited resources—foster genuine innovation and elegance.
•13 min read
The Art Of the Conceal
Examining Trump's return through the lens of fiscal policy and information warfare, connecting Treasury debt patterns with narratives of chaos and destabilization.
•5 min read
The 3.5 Billion-Year-Old Algorithm We're Still Copying
Exploring how biological reproductive strategies mirror our approach to creating AI systems, and what nature's 3.5-billion-year generative process teaches about responsibility.
•6 min read
Think Like Nobody's Watching
Exploring how reliance on AI, emojis, and linguistic shortcuts may erode human cognitive architecture and the mental capacities underlying civilization.
•7 min read
The AI Question Revolution
How intense dialogue with AI can push cognitive boundaries, and why mastering question-crafting represents humanity's evolutionary frontier in the age of AI.