Tag: essay

All the articles with the tag "essay".

• The Engine Hunts

  16 Mar, 2026 · 14 min read

  The fastest cognitive engine ever built needs the same thing Watt's steam engine needed in 1788: not more power, but a mechanism to make power usable.

• The Spec Frontier

  16 Mar, 2026 · 13 min read

  AI makes execution cheap across every creative domain. The bottleneck that remains is making intention legible.

• One Thing Well

  15 Mar, 2026 · 16 min read

  The agent economy will not be won by the biggest models. It will be won by the ten thousand specialists who know one thing better than any general system ever could.

• Before the Panic

  15 Mar, 2026 · 22 min read

  The minimum viable institution for the agent economy is identity. Everything else — trust, payment, markets, insurance — is built on top of knowing who you're dealing with.