Artificial Intelligence
The AI Divide: Why Internet Speed Matters More Than Chip Speed
In the emerging world, "Edge AI" is a luxury. The real revolution is happening in the cloud, where latency is the new literacy and fiber is the new oil.
Economy & Markets
First We Race on Drugs. Then We Race Against Robots.
The Olympics are dead. Long live the mutants. The Enhanced Games aren't just a sports league; they are a clinical trial for transhumanism.
Apple
Apple Journal x Gemini: The Memory is About to Level Up
Your diary is a digital graveyard. With Gemini, it’s about to become an active analyst. The "Quantified Self" is dead; the "Analyzed Self" is here.
Artificial Intelligence
Let Them Steal Your IP: Why GenAI Fan Art is the Ultimate Growth Hack
The copyright wars are over. The remix wars have begun. Smart brands aren't suing creators; they are hiring them. Inspiration: Scrolling Facebook and seeing a fan-made Batman poster that looked better than the official one, and realizing I wanted to see that movie more. When GenAI first
Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Driving: It’s Not About the Car. It’s About the Kid in the Back Seat.
We are obsessing over the technology. Parents are obsessing over the peace of mind. That is the premium that scales the industry. Inspiration: Reading The Anxious Generation and realizing that for a parent, the “killer app” isn’t speed; it’s the ability to track the taxi. Waymo is no
Artificial Intelligence
Before We Get AGI, We Need “The Face”
Text is efficient. Voice is convenient. But humans are biologically wired to trust only one interface: A Face. Inspiration: Watching my friends ignore a perfect ChatGPT answer, only to watch a 15-minute YouTube video of a guy saying the exact same thing because they trusted his face. Tech people
Artificial Intelligence
AI Won’t Give You Purpose. It Will Force You to Find It.
We are entering the age of "Cognitive Surplus." You can spend it on dopamine, or you can spend it on the questions you were too busy to ask. Inspiration: The “hole within” described in The Anxious Generation, and realizing that for the first time in history, the machine
Meta
Meta’s $100B Opportunity: Why It Must Kill Salesforce
They own the conversation. Now they need to own the transaction. WhatsApp isn't just a chat app; it's the operating system of global business. Inspiration: Watching a $50k deal close entirely on WhatsApp, then imagining the sales rep manually type the data into Salesforce like it’
Meta
Meta Made Wearables Socially Acceptable. Who Wins the Industry?
The "news" is slow. The betting markets are instant. And the reason they are so accurate is the one thing we aren't supposed to talk about: Insider Trading. Inspiration: Coffeezilla’s breakdown of how prediction markets are basically unregulated casinos, and watching the GPT-5.2
Meta
To Win Consumer AI, Meta Should Focus on Language
Google organizes the world's information. Meta connects the world's people. In the AI era, the killer app isn't a chatbot; it's a universal translator. Inspiration: Trying to use Google Translate in Southeast Asia and realizing that while it knows the words, it
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Could Save OpenAI (But They Won’t)
It looks like a partnership. It acts like a dependency. In reality, it is a slow-motion acquisition. Inspiration: Satya Nadella’s calm demeanor during the OpenAI coup, and the old Microsoft playbook: “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.” November 2023. The Board fires Sam Altman. Chaos ensues. Satya Nadella didn’t panic.
Artificial Intelligence
The Future of iPhones Depends on Google
Apple Intelligence is good at privacy, but bad at thinking. To save the iPhone upgrade cycle, Apple just outsourced its brain to Google. (This post, like many others, was originally posted in 2025, before I migrated this site from WordPress to Ghost infrastructure). Inspiration: Realizing that “Siri” is still dumb