Month: August 2026

I saw this going viral, “The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores,” about the decline of “third spaces,” which describes informal places where strangers congregate. This can include post offices, coffeehouses, grocery stores, or, as it pertains to this article, movie rental stores. Movie rental stores thrived during the eighties and nineties, until becoming… Continue reading “Nostalgia maxxing:” why can’t we leave the past

Item #1. The attention bottleneck. This is an astute observation: Nobody wants to hear this, but the biggest moat in business right now is attention. 40 cents of every venture dollar raised goes to Google and Facebook for ads. As a founder, spending time building an audience organically will give you a higher long term… Continue reading The Daily View 8/10/2026: Attention, Shrinkflation, Truth Social API, …

“Affordability” is the new “current thing:” It’s interesting how certain topics suddenly go viral. Right now, it’s food and the cost of living, but on Sunday and Monday, the focus was on Iran, with Trump declaring another ceasefire (the fifth one now?). I expect attention will swing back to Iran soon, especially if more tankers… Continue reading The are no good options for “affordability”

I saw these articles going viral about the “AI crisis in math,” those being “Mathematicians need to act” and “The Dark Night of Mathematics.” If the math career doesn’t work out or if AI takes over, they certainly have a career in writing. This also agrees with the literature that verbal IQ and math/quantitative IQ… Continue reading The debate over math and AI–why mathematicians are still needed and valued

The media keeps pushing this narrative as a foregone conclusion or self-evident that the crypto industry “won” or “bought out” democracy, despite every shred of evidence showing otherwise. Richard Hanania’s recent piece, “Why the Tech Right Failed,” is a good example. He claims, as a matter of fact in passing, that “the crypto industry is… Continue reading The crypto industry lost.

Speaking of free time, I-and presumably many others-am experiencing what can only be described as information overload. It has become increasingly difficult to stay on top of everything. Despite the supposed “post-literacy age,” the past few months, especially, have brought a deluge of content. There is a lot more content being produced now than there… Continue reading The information deluge, and human capital boom