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What Surprised Me in the OpenAI Files
Patterns that are hard to ignore
Jun 19
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Tom Chavez
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We’re falling in love with the machine.
Emotional addiction, by design.
Jun 12
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Tom Chavez
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The Confidence Industrial Complex
Certainty is not strategy. But it has never been easier to monetize.
Jun 5
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May 2025
Your future is... algorithmically uncertain
Congrats, grad! Your signing bonus is a recurring existential crisis.
May 29
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Tom Chavez
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I Dismissed Prompting as a Gimmick. I Was Wrong.
What I thought was a temporary hack turned out to be the core skill.
May 22
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Tom Chavez
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This chart explains a lot of founder behavior
Founder flavors: spicy, steady, or slightly unhinged
May 14
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Tom Chavez
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What a Public Execution in 1813 Tells Us About AI Today
The Luddites weren’t anti-technology, they were anti-poverty. Their story has a warning for the AI age.
May 7
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Tom Chavez
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The Next Great American Export: Talent
We don’t need foreign rivals to steal American talent. We’re packing their bags for them.
May 2
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Tom Chavez
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April 2025
A liberal democracy, if you can afford it
Turns out the social contract had fine print: “Void where wealthy.”
Apr 18
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Tom Chavez
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Arthur Patterson on Crypto, Cogs, and the Search for Meaning
Accel’s co-founder reflects on the venture game and the power of curiosity
Apr 10
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Tom Chavez
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The Liar's Dividend, 2025 Edition
It’s not the deepfakes. It’s the doubt they sow.
Apr 3
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Tom Chavez
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March 2025
Operation Wetback, the Sequel
Yet another reboot that nobody asked for
Mar 21
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Tom Chavez
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