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

The big story is the hedge fund Situational Awareness, founded by investing prodigy Leopold Aschenbrenner (@leopoldasch), has been unwound following significant losses during the recent crash in AI stocks: Truly an incredible turn of events for Situational Awareness and @leopoldasch. https://t.co/kRtDQF19ZI pic.twitter.com/qYLCDnq4xX — Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) July 30, 2026 Here is the timeline: His downfall… Continue reading Leopold Aschenbrenner blows up

As a follow-up to my last post, “The AI Experts Who Couldn’t Predict AI,” I want to expound on the “memory shortage” of 2025-2026 and how no one saw it coming, even experts in AI. A seemingly sudden demand for memory due to AI has led to shortages for personal computers and other applications. This… Continue reading The “memory shortage” that no one saw coming

The article, “A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence,” went viral. It was co-authored by Jacob Tsimerman, who, as the media has made abundantly clear, is the 2026 Fields Medal recipient–as if that somehow adds credibility to the article or grants him immunity from criticism. Despite being published on arXiv, which has a focus… Continue reading The AI Experts Who Couldn’t Predict AI

The latest moral panic among the chattering classes and online intelligentsia is the so-called “end of reading.” Two weeks ago, The Atlantic proclaimed that we are entering a “post-literate age.” NPR similarly asked, “Are we living through the end of reading?” Or from the New York Times, “Is This What a Post-Literate Era Looks Like?”… Continue reading The Long-Form Content Boom No One’s Talking About