17 minutes to read A couple of popular open source projects in the .NET ecosystem, first Verify and now Polly - have adopted (or are thinking about adopting) the Open Source Maintenance Fee to…

It may not seem like it, but the millennia-old academic discipline of mathematics has been undergoing a productivity revolution during the last thirty years. That revolution is being enabled by the…

I'm attending Nicole Königstein's live Agentic AI for Finance Certification bootcamp: building multi-agent AI systems with harness engineering for finance. Artykuł Attending Nicole Königstein’s…

Ten years ago, I wrote a series of blogs called The Origins of Moneykind. They accompanied the launch of Digital Human and explored a simple question: where does money come from? Looking back a…

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From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That doesn’t look sustainable. And…

Foreword: I wrote and posted this piece on August 20, 2026, with the promise that I would listen to feedback and try to respond and incorporate ideas and suggestions. To keep this promise, I will…

After the madmess of Musk a few weeks on The Economist's showcase podcast, thinker/writer Yuval Noah Harari is on for the hour this week. The following is a summary of his key points, many of…

authored by Premmi Secret Tip From a Venture Capitalist The first rule of becoming a billionaire is scale. Fraud, it turns out, has economies of scale too. Steal a billion dollars from one person and…

Once again here comes the socialist pablum.A federal $25 minimum wage mandate would destroy millions of jobs across the country and hit several of the Sun Belt states that have seen a significant…

Creator-commerce platform ShopMy de facto runs an affiliate network, joining a variety of incumbents who have operated in this space for literally decades. Merchants considering running two or more…

When we launched the S&P 500's Thanksgiving Leftover project the day after Thanksgiving 2025, we knew we were going to spend the next year following the stock prices of companies that weren't doing…

For the past several weeks, I have been working my way through the major findings in the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy. This article concludes that series. For readers…

Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath How much should urban land cost? Generally we can think of the price being determined by the agglomeration effects of the city…

[I'm open-sourcing relevant sections of my Anti Fund (antifund.com) LP letters which I write monthly.]Dear Partners and Friends,Last month I wrote that alpha is rotating toward atoms (and hence…

This is the first post in a three-part series.I want you to try something - drop the word intelligence into the conversation at a Saturday lunch, and see what looks you get from people. Something…

When a Chinese company first came to London to build an enterprise business, it hired a batch of local salespeople for the relationships they held. It didn't amount to much, and the hires were let go…

Carriers spent July filing to strip generative AI out of commercial liability policies. An industry whose entire product is getting paid to accept risk wants no part of this one — not because AI is…

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The AI industry is like Dracula, sucking blood from our society. You'll never guess who's coming with the stake.

Every serious political and economic argument about AI eventually collapses into one question. Not left vs. right. Not West vs. East. Not safety vs. acceleration. The real divide is simpler: does…

Important issue facing a modern way of earning a living

It’s the summer of 2026 and betting is very cool. You just do not want to be caught watching a World Cup game without having done a 17-leg parlay. You get to say things like “this match…

New US sanctions against the ICC will lead to anonymous judges, a la Peru. Continuing to weaponize the US monetary system will promote financial alternatives, ultimately killing the US dollar.…

(Joint with Nathan Lauster and cross-posted at HomeFreeSociology) <code> library(tidyverse) library(VancouvR) library(sf) library(mountainmathHelpers) How much should urban land cost? Generally…

Malaysia’s strong GDP growth in recent quarters has been attributed to sectors relating to artificial intelligence build-up. More often than not, that means…

PacBio had a major shakeup early this month. First came a large round of layoffs, which caught several individuals who were very much the face of innovation on social media. Next came the sudden…

Whether it offers breathtaking natural features, a historic landmark, or simply a place for viewing other phenomena, a park can serve as an amazing magnet and catalyst for economic development. …

2 min read on bias for action, asymmetric conviction and radical acceptance Most modern executives manage risk by deferring it, and they can, because they live behind what Bezos calls ‘two-way…

Why falling startup costs, shrinking teams, and instant distribution point to more businesses, more jobs, and faster growth, not less.

Every infrastructure sector in modern history developed using the same playbook. Someone builds raw capacity ahead of demand. The raw resource commoditizes and gets cheaper forever. And the money…

Customers Bancorp told investors its AI closed commercial loans in seven days instead of 30 to 60. Then an analyst asked what it had saved, and the honest answer was that nobody knows yet. In lending…

Everyone on the executive team is busy making plan and improving efficiency. But who is making sure you’re actually winning the market? Why CEOs need to track market share — even when the data is…

AI does not make ambitious software free. It makes bounded technical bets cheap enough to run as a portfolio. The minimum software bet has fallen AI changes the economics of a particular class of…

In my previous LinkedIn post, I explored how telecom operators are beginning to unlock revenue opportunities from AI. This article attempts to answer an equally… The post Why Sovereign AI Could…

You've probably heard it all before. Be your own boss. Control your schedule. Own your time. As attractive as it sounds, it's a lie. Many people believe that working for yourself means unlimited…

CoreWeave reported its Q2 2026 earnings last week, triggering an immediate positive market reaction that propelled its shares from ~$90 to ~$111. What was the remarkable achievement of the company?…

This is pretty basic economics but apparently it needs spelling out… Sponsorship deals go to the highest bidder. If the highest bidder is excluded from the process then the organisation that is…

The problem I run an Airbnb. Every year the return starts the same way: pull the credit card statements, add them up, and bucket the spend. Schedule C wants categories, not a pile of charges. A…

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Washington state taxpayers paying the new Millionaires Tax may assume the itemized deductions they use on their federal income tax return also somehow work for the state income tax. That assumption…

  For a while now I have been waiting for the "AI bubble" to burst. I don't want it to happen, but what the hell is one supposed to think when companies that make up a large portion of the U.S.…

Coding and research agents change the cost structure of quantitative hedge funds. But this does not provide for a particularly good opening for startup managers.

On one side, there’s Kalshi, Polymarket, and all other companies offering prediction market sports wagers–err, sports predictions–allied with the Commodities Futures Trading…

The continued expansion of the global data center industry has drawn increasing attention to onsite water use and the energy efficiency of infrastructure (which is linked to water used in…

This article argues that AI is collapsing the distance between vision and execution, ushering in a Doer Economy where the primary winners are those who can both imagine and build. The traditional…

Treasury bills are an excellent investment option for conservative investors seeking safety, liquidity, and predictable short-term returns. With sovereign backing, flexible tenures, and ease of…

Sinar saw digital photography coming decades before it transformed the industry. So why did one of photography’s most innovative companies struggle to survive it? I have some ideas.

On July 9 S&P cut Oracle to BBB-. On July 10 Wisconsin regulators let a deadline pass and left standing a rule that says anyone below A- posts collateral before the utility will sell them power. A…