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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.
Sep 25
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Tom Chavez
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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
Sep 18
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Tom Chavez
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In Defense of Bubbles
The wreckage is real. So are the gifts hiding underneath.
Sep 11
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Tom Chavez
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August 2025
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.
Aug 28
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Tom Chavez
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The update that killed my wife
The strangest AI stories have something to teach us
Aug 14
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Tom Chavez
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July 2025
What LLMs and Stoned Jazz Musicians Have in Common
Genius, chaos, and absolutely no memory of what just happened
Jul 31
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Tom Chavez
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The next software failure will kill people
CrowdStrike bricked the world. One year later, we still don’t have guardrails
Jul 18
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Tom Chavez
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Why I'd Never Hire Me
(The upside of being unmanageable)
Jul 10
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Tom Chavez
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June 2025
Trust as Invisible Asset Class
When it collapses, so does everything else.
Jun 27
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Tom Chavez
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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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Tom Chavez
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