Sitemap - 2026 - People vs Algorithms

The Friction Economy

The Mother of All Interface Battles

The AI Interface Shift

Nobody Asked For Dragons

Cognitive Struggle

Strong Meat

A Lot of People Say the Web Is Dead

Owning the Narrative

Social Media is Dead

The Provenance Problem

Your Editable Self

Sales Energy

Self Help Edition

AI’s High School Cafeteria

You Still Need Humans to Make Nice Things

The New Moat

Haaland Won

In Praise of Aggregation

Boomer Sway

Protecting Alpha

I Need It to Come from a Human

The Coldplay Protocol

Half Built Pyramids

Cannes is CES with Rosé

Banning Driverless Cars Is the New Landmarking

Americamaxxing, AI Taste Wars, World Cup Soft Power

A Coke Is Still a Coke

The Abundance Economy

If I Could Generate This in Thirty Seconds, Why Did You Send It to Me?

The AI Pushback

I'm Sorry Dave

Homines Contra Algorithmos

Steroid Olympics

Steroid Olympics

The Great Emancipator

Clauditis

The Most Powerful Song In the World

Monkey Business

Blur

The Clipping Economy

Death Stars

Spooning the Gravy

This Human in the Loop

Humans in the Loop

The Inspiration Economy

The Great Media Reorientation

Emily Sundberg, New Media Energy and Hot Takes

New Media Energy

High Leverage People

The War on Slop

First Principle Mythologizing

First Principles Meet the Real World

Chinese Nostradamus and Other Weekly Media Curiosities

Systems Are King

How To Make $600 Million

Hating the Player and the Game

The Triumph of Narrative

The AI Reckoning

Best/Worst of Times

If Everything Is So Good, Why Does Everything Feel So Bad?

Work Is Not Optional

AI Anxiety

Reputation Matters

Legacy Humans

Mind Control

Monitoring the Situation

How To Fix Your Life

New York Magazine Is Bringing Back Classifieds

Retro Digital

The Video Is Us

Finding Leverage