Since ChatGPT, employment for U.S. workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed jobs has fallen about 12%, while every older age group held steady or grew.

            As communist countries transitioned to capitalism, numerous existing institutions lost their relevance and countries found…

Lots of seemingly illogical behavior starts to make sense when you consider Nvidia, the company, as the principal deity in a religion practiced by the ruling / elite / stock-owning class. You'll…

Blockchain is mildly interesting, but money is definitely not.

Artificial intelligence is essentially energy. Artificial intelligence has very high utility. Therefore, there is going to be a huge energy boom. Space solar, nuclear and many other forms of clean…

With Keir Starmer expected to fall on his sword shortly, here is my take on the conundrum facing Andy Burnham, indeed any and every British PM. The true nature of Britain’s ‘special relationship’…

Technology businesses are heavily influenced by waves of technology change, like the rise of the internet or AI. Knowing how to adjust strategy for these changes is one of the most important skills…

A small, practical book on tidyings - tiny safe structural changes - and how to reason about when design work is worth it as an economic decision.

In June 2016, Bill Gates topped the Forbes list with a fortune of $88.8 billion (roughly $123.9 billion adjusted for inflation). At the time, that was treated as a number almost too large to picture.…

StubHub's FIFA World Cup ticket controversy is reviving long-standing concerns about speculative ticketing, hidden fees, consumer arbitration clauses, and marketplace accountability. Critics raised…

I’ve heard this claim now really often: at conferences, in keynotes, even in casual conversations: “With AI, we’ll soon only need to work two or three days a week.” The narrative is…

If you want to understand wealth in America, a good place to start is The Everywhere Millionaire by Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick. It offers a fact-filled analysis of the role of pass-through businesses,…

On-chain liquidity is capital under constraints: embedded in contracts, distributed across domains, consumed by transactions, and shaped by arbitrage capacity.

Why small agencies should minimize billable hours and use productized, deliverable, or outcome-based pricing to protect margin and improve client outcomes.

A Small Fintech Challenge, and Why I Let Postgres Hold the Money I picked up a small backend challenge recently: build a marketplace where guilds buy and auction items using in-game gold. Listings,…

At the turn of the 20th century, British shipyards launched something close to eighty percent of worldwide shipping tonnage.1 Yards like John Brown, Swan Hunter, and Harland & Wolff supplied much…

Early in my software engineering career, the UK-based startup I worked at, GenieDB, was taken over by a US Venture Capital fund, Frost VP, owned by Stuart Frost. I was functionally the only piece…

In Manchester, the state de-risks rentier capitalism more than in any other UK city, which (ostensibly) benefits the urban centre far more than its outer regions. Yet people who live and work in that…

Salesforce acquires Fin, we need more economic studies of AI impact, and drones now perform sea rescues.

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