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hype-utility-inversion The less hype the better, literally. I'm writing to you from near the peak of the global generative AI and LLM bubble. It's pretty crazy in here. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being almost literally burned in massive...

social inflation Money devalues everything, including itself. When you add more money to an economy the prices of things within the economy tend to rise. So if you have £1 today and it buys you a sandwich, and you then...

catches win matches Think small. If you follow cricket you'll likely know the phrase 'catches win matches'. In cricket, it is literally true. It's also figuratively true everywhere else. When you think about cricket and famous cricketers you think about...

don't believe your own bullshit Just don't. I used to work somewhere that had this unfortunate predisposition of believing its own bullshit. Everyone bullshits a bit. And marketing is pretty much an entire discipline dedicated to figuring out where the...

hyperreal virtue capitalism Say everything, mean nothing (Originally posted in 2023) I thought I might have an aneurysm when I first saw people talking about ‘woke capitalism’ and ‘woke banking’, but I managed to cling on. Long enough at least...

digital minimalism What you gain offline matters more than what you lose. I quit Twitter and deleted my account the day that Musk announced he confirmed he was buying it. Crossed a pretty big red line of mine not to...