Dear Dario,
You preached AI ethics from your personal blog while selling Anthropic's independence to Amazon. Now your 'Constitutional AI' sits on Bezos's property, paying rent."
Strategic Measures
50 posts
The Greengrocer Goes To Davos
W04 - When a system runs on collective pretense, it inevitably breaks. Not when the fiction fails, but when maintaining it costs more than telling the truth. I wrote this in a newsletter. Canada's PM just delivered it at Davos. Either Ottawa's subscribing, or truth has its own timing.
Building Without Blueprints
W02 - In a world obsessed with "just fix it," here's the uncomfortable reality: Companies won't act ethically, governments won't regulate properly, and your reusable straw won't save the planet. Real change isn't about blueprints—it's about power. Build it or keep pretending.
The $20 Billion Distraction
W01 - While Silicon Valley built trillion-dollar AI castles, we mapped every patent but missed every human cost. 130+ weeks of tech analysis revealed our fatal blind spot: we're not creating intelligence—we're crystallizing it into infrastructure that thinks back.
Architecture Over Scale
W49 - When Google validated my AI thesis, I didn't celebrate. I shrugged. While they wrote 50-page theories, I'd already built the solution—in $75 cow tags. They're just arriving at the starting line as I cross the finish. Being right too early feels exactly like being wrong. Until it doesn't.
When Two's Company, Three's a Revolution
W46 - When U.S. sanctions cut off Huawei from advanced chips, they didn't just restrict—they revolutionized. In 2025, blocked from optimizing binary computers, China's tech giant unveiled something radical: the first commercial three-state processor, upending 80 years of computing.
Power in the Background
W45 - While tech giants wage PR battles over AI, Amazon is quietly building its neural substrate in Indiana cornfields. The real power isn't in the models—it's in who owns the ground they stand on. And we've seen this movie before.
How Beautiful Failures Create Innovation Breakthroughs
W39 - Inspired by Brian Potter's analysis in "How Common Is Accidental Invention?" which revealed that approximately 7% of major inventions between 1800-1970 emerged from genuine accidents—a statistic that only hints at the deeper cybernetic reality of how breakthrough innovation actually occurs.
The Magic Kingdom Crumbles in Corporate Cowardice
W38 - Disney silenced Kimmel, sparking a mass exodus that crashed their systems—and credibility. This misfire exposed corporate America's costliest strategy: cowardice as prudence. Mickey's white gloves? Perfect for waving the surrender flag. Welcome to the new Magic Kingdom: where dreams die.
The Luddite's Last Stand
W37 - Today's Luddites aren't smashing machines—they're teachers demanding longhand math and surgeons questioning AI diagnoses. While we debate ethics, our judgment muscles atrophy. The real question: can we preserve human agency before we forget we had it?
The Blindness of the Visionary—Why Most People Can't See Around Corners
W32 - They call themselves visionaries while demanding to see the future before believing in it—like food critics insisting on tasting tomorrow's breakfast. They're not being wise; they're just chickens with fancy vocabularies.
Divided We Stand, United We Fall
W28 - Democracy crumbles from within as we fragment sovereignty along identity lines. Our rush to grant every group "sovereign" status weakens true political authority. Ironically, this quest for recognition may pave the way for the authoritarianism we fear.
The Startup States of America
W24 - Your vote might count, but your voice is being algorithmized out of existence. We're not seeing democratic backsliding—we're witnessing startup methodology applied to governance itself, replacing democratic coordination with corporate management systems.
"You're Not Special" - Human Irrelevance in the Age of Exponential AI
W18 - That witty tweet you crafted? While you hit 'post', AI filled a library with content. Your curated Instagram feed? A mass-produced illusion. Welcome to digital irrelevance, where your voice is a whisper in synthetic noise.
The Moral Bankruptcy of "Cheat on Everything" AI
W17 - In a world where 'Cheat on Everything' AI turns deceit into an art form, the real casualty is authenticity. Silicon Valley's latest darling teaches us not just how to fake it, but how to surrender the trust that glues our society together. Will we bank on deception or integrity?
The Digital Coup—How Technology Is Reshaping Power
W16 - The architecture of digital control operates unseen: comprehensive data collection feeding algorithmic processing that enables behavioral modification. We're not witnessing disruption—we're experiencing a coup executed not with tanks in the streets but with servers in the cloud.
The Consulting Industry's Terminal Diagnosis
W15 — When a single government contract cancellation wipes $14B from Accenture's value, it's not just a bad day—it's a diagnosis. The consulting industry built a fortune selling Google-able insights at 300% markups. Now AI has arrived with the receipts, and the patient is terminal.
Capital Disrupted—The AI Native Shift Across Industries
W14 — What once required fifty engineers, twenty million dollars, and three years can now be accomplished by five people, two million dollars, and six months. This isn't hyperbole—it's the mathematics of disruption unleashed by AI native businesses across every sector of the economy.
Consuming Connections—How Corporations Colonized Our Third Place
W13 - Remember when Starbucks was your 'third place'? Their recent 'buy something or leave' policy finally exposed what many suspected: the emperor never had clothes. From Instagram museums to food halls, we're now surrounded by spectacular substitutes for authentic community.
The Emerging Security Paradigm in AI Development
W12 — What most see as corporate AI competition is actually a new global security paradigm: Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM). AWS/Anthropic versus Microsoft/OpenAI aren't mere business rivals—they're deterrence blocs in a technological Cold War where algorithms are weapons.
Economic Uncharted Territory—Moving Beyond Obsolete Maps
W11 - Capitalism isn't dying—it's metamorphosizing. But into what? This manifesto unveils the blind spots in our economic vision, challenging us to see beyond markets and states to the emerging landscapes of post-scarcity, network coordination, and biomimetic systems.
How Apple and Companion AI Killed Privacy Without Anyone Noticing
W10 - While you fought over encryption, Big Tech pulled off the greatest surveillance sleight-of-hand. Your iPhone isn't just watching—it's redefining privacy itself. And Apple, once privacy's champion, just became its greatest threat.
No Collar Jobs—Beyond the AI Disruption
W08 - Psst! AI just overturned the job market applecart: It's not just a bad year—it's a swirling shift. Experience is now your biggest liability, and your resume? It’s more like a relic in this new AI-augmented world. Tune in to navigate the chaos—or watch as "Apply Now" becomes "Apply Never."
The Bible—Humanity's First Large Language Model?
W06 - What if the world's most sophisticated language model wasn't created in Silicon Valley, but emerged 3,000 years ago? Discover how the Bible outperforms modern AI in cultural adaptation, error correction, and millennial-scale stability.
Not Just Another Essay About DeepSeek—The Ransomware Edition
W05 - 2024: Silicon Valley unleashes AI ransomware on a global scale. Your creativity is the target. The ransom? Your future. Pay to protect your own ideas, or watch AI replicate them endlessly. Welcome to the digital protection racket, where innovation comes at a price.
The Political Singularity—Welcome to the First Algorithmic State
W04 - When Trump launched his meme coin, traditional politics died. For the first time ever, you can buy a direct stake in presidential success. Welcome to the Political Casino, where influence isn't wielded in corridors of power—it's flashed in market volatility.
The Computational Autocracy—Inside the UAE's Blueprint for AI-Powered Control
W03 - What if your every choice was subtly orchestrated by an invisible digital puppet master? Dive into Abu Dhabi's audacious AI gambit: a chess master's strategy for a future where the lines between choice and command blur. Welcome to the UAE's pioneering realm of computational autocracy.
The Invisible Resolution—NVIDIA's Neural Optics and the Death of Computing as We Know It
W01 - NVIDIA's patent isn't just another tech milestone. It's a silent earthquake, reshaping the bedrock of computing while the industry obsesses over surface tremors. We're not talking incremental change. This is how humans and machines merge.
No One Leaves a Good Company: An OpenAI Story
W51 - OpenAI's fall from grace isn't just corporate drama—it's a chilling preview of how every ethical AI governance attempt could unravel. As we race towards AGI, are we dismantling the very safeguards meant to protect us?
I Call Dibs: An Intellectual Property Paradox
W50 - From Amazon patenting white backgrounds to billion-dollar battles over rounded rectangles, welcome to the intellectual property circus—where common sense goes to die, innovation moves at the speed of litigation, and even your coffee mug might sue for royalties.
The Science of Subjective Value: Understanding the Architecture of Experience
W47 - Why do Red Bull's smaller, pricier, worse-tasting drinks dominate the market? Why do Disney's longer posted wait times boost satisfaction? Dive into the neural architecture of how humans actually construct value—and why traditional metrics get it wrong.
The Great Marketing Delusion: Rethinking Business Psychology in the Age of Perception
W46 - Forget spreadsheets! Businesses keep botching human psychology—the gap's so wide you could park a train in it! Think: billion-dollar companies, all math, no matter. Explore how understanding perception trumps cost-cutting. Spoiler: it's a masterpiece of cognitive misfires!
From Tasks to Systems: The True AI Revolution in Services
W44 - Silicon Valley obsesses over AI's party tricks while missing the $5 trillion revolution hiding in plain sight. The real transformation isn't about automation—it's about reimagining how entire industries create and capture value.