Taste is not just prescient. It's also a lagging indicator. It shows up when engineering alone is not enough. Conventional wisdom is that taste enables you to see into the future. Tastemakers are meant to see ahead. Yet, they often don’t have the opportunity to influence tastes
Why Transactions Build Relationships - Part II
If we are not first; And we are not last; Then we are editors. 1960 - 1970 I asked AI to help me figure out what movies and television to watch to learn about the 1960s. My goal isn’t to figure out the most viewed or critically acclaimed - although I
And Its Perils
A conversation with Carolyn Zelikow
Taste is not just prescient. It's also a lagging indicator. It shows up when engineering alone is not enough. Conventional wisdom is that taste enables you to see into the future. Tastemakers are meant to see ahead. Yet, they often don’t have the opportunity to influence tastes
What happens when you give Claude skills
A book club discussion with Brown Papas Unite
Last week at dinner, the conversation shifted to Universal Basic Income (UBI): Are we building systems to help people keep up, or to pay them to get out of the way? Someone referred to it as the permanent underclass. The conversation got quiet because this outcome is plausible, and many
The Clash of Inspiration and Order
And why governance tends not to be dynastic in America.
Tokens Don't Lie
Why Transactions Build Relationships - Part II
How the U.S. is managing the dollar for higher margins and why the UAE just became the first premium customer
How they locked out competition before consumers even arrived
Where is the equilibrium point?