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What Got You Here Won't Get You There
The rules of the game are changing faster than humans can adapt and no playbook from the last decade will save you.
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Tom Chavez
The real AI pinch point
Hint: it’s not chips
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Dead Metaphors Cost Billions
Capital doesn’t chase reality. It chases stories. The winners know when it’s time to tell a new one.
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Tom Chavez
Democracy Is the Platform Beneath Every Startup
Harrison Miller on Amazon’s coin-toss chaos, building through bubbles, and why democracy is the platform behind every startup
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In Defense of Bubbles
The wreckage is real. So are the gifts hiding underneath.
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America reveres work. ICE raids desecrate it.
From Puritans to the New Deal to César Chávez — across politics and class, we’ve always shared one belief: work is sacred. ICE raids betray that.
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The update that killed my wife
The strangest AI stories have something to teach us
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What LLMs and Stoned Jazz Musicians Have in Common
Genius, chaos, and absolutely no memory of what just happened
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The next software failure will kill people
CrowdStrike bricked the world. One year later, we still don’t have guardrails
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