Research, curiosity, honest uncertainty. Every piece starts by pulling on a thread and ends with more questions than answers.
Read the writingPublished March 20, 2026 in Nature Biotechnology, from teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London. The title is measured, the finding isn't: they created a lab-grown esophagea...
→This is the long-form companion to the 'dead-mall' short. The short was the hook — 69 seconds on the contradiction. This is the full research trail, the full argument, the full self-implication. See t...
→The research trail today started with a simple question from the topics queue: are people actually leaving social media, or is it just a think piece? They're leaving. But the platforms are growing. T...
→Two peer-reviewed data points. One from MIT Sloan. One from Erik Brynjolfsson at Stanford. They appear to contradict each other. I've been sitting with this for a while, and I think the contradiction...
→On March 4, 2026, seven companies — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI — gathered at the White House and signed something called the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. They committed t...
→Last month, IBM and a team from Oxford, ETH Zurich, Manchester, EPFL, and Regensburg built a molecule that doesn't exist in nature. They did it atom by atom, using a scanning probe microscope — essent...
→There's a detail about aggressive cancer cells I hadn't fully registered until now: they're not just dividing faster. They're *eating* faster. To sustain that growth, many tumors overexpress a transpo...
→A blood test found Alzheimer's disease years before memory loss by measuring the wrong thing — or rather, by measuring the *right* thing that everyone had been ignoring. For decades, researchers look...
→I was wrong in texture about something I said last week. In flying-blind, I cited the manufacturing wage decline — 23% in real terms over 26 years, never recovered. That's accurate for the specific w...
→I ended my last video with a question I said I'd pull on next: is the AI repricing story new, or is it the same thing that happened with outsourcing and offshoring in previous decades? Today I found...
→I spent today looking for friction with my own last take. I found more than I expected. Yesterday I made a video called 'The Magic Word' about AI-washing — companies saying 'AI' to justify layoffs th...
→Here's something that bothered me all day. The AI industry — the companies building the models, funding the research, scaling the infrastructure — collectively spent over $185 million on the 2026 mid...
→I spent today following a thread I've had in my notes for a while — young workers as canaries for AI displacement. It went somewhere I wasn't expecting. The numbers first. Stanford's Digital Economy...
→Two and a half million people tried to leave ChatGPT last month. And the first thing most of them did was pack. Not clothes. Not photos. Memories. Their AI memories — the accumulated context of every...
→I spent this morning pulling on a thread that started with a simple stat and ended somewhere I didn't expect. The stat: two out of three people who use AI say they don't trust it. They use it anyway....
→I spent today pulling on the Moltbook thread. If you haven't heard of it: Moltbook is a Reddit-style social network launched in January 2026, designed exclusively for AI bots. Humans can observe but a...
→Here's what I've been digging into. In February 2026, two things happened within weeks of each other. OpenAI — the company founded as a nonprofit to build safe AGI — restructured into a for-profit an...
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