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Five Percent of Your Job, Leveraged 20x · Hanh D. Brown

AI Productivity: Five Percent of Your Job, Leveraged 20x. When AI does ninety-five percent of the task, the five percent that is yours gets levered twenty times. Three categories of work hold their value. ai-careers ai-and-work ai-economics The default question in 2026 is whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) takes your job. The question is wrong. The …

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Why Blackwell Delivers 50x, Not 2x · Hanh D. Brown

AI Chip Performance: Why Blackwell Delivers 50x, Not 2x. AI hardware delivers 50x more tokens per watt while spec sheets show 2x. The 25x gap lives in extreme co-design across seven layers, not in any single chip. ai-hardware ai-markets ai-economics If you have followed Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware announcements and wondered why the generational gaps …

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Treat the Agent Like an Employee · Hanh D. Brown

AI Agent Governance: Treat the Agent Like an Employee. An AI agent without identity, role, access, audit, performance, and a manager is not autonomous. It is unsupervised. The fix is six primitives and a kill switch. ai-governance ai-and-work ai-strategy An enterprise would never let a human employee through the door without an identification badge, an …

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My Mother and Higher-Value Care · Hanh D. Brown

The Work AI Cannot Replace: My Mother and Higher-Value Care. AI abundance forecasts assume labor scales. Care work does not. A daughter’s hours are the hours the forecast does not see. The wall is closer than they say. caregiving aging-and-care ai-economics ai-careers Artificial Intelligence (AI) abundance forecasts share a sentence. The sentence promises automation will …

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Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year · Hanh D. Brown

Venture Capital and AI: Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year. Old venture capital was a basketball team sized for fifteen winners a year. The redesign that scaled: share economics, centralize control, and grow sideways. ai-markets ai-strategy ai-economics For thirty years, every venture firm in the country was sized for the same number. About fifteen technology …

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Distribution Decides Whose Values Win · Hanh D. Brown

Open Weights AI: Distribution Decides Whose Values Win. Open Artificial Intelligence models win distribution because they ship cheaper and modifiable. Distribution decides the global default. Values ride along with the winner. ai-policy ai-markets ai-safety Powerful countries are not picking the smartest Artificial Intelligence (AI). They are picking the cheapest one to deploy and the easiest …

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Three Layers, One Sentence Skipped · Hanh D. Brown

How to Read AI News: Three Layers, One Sentence Skipped. AI news conflates three different capabilities. The most important sentence is usually the one the announcement does not say. Here is the method for reading it. reading-ai-news ai-and-work ai-strategy Notice the word Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any news story you read this morning. The word …

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Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long · Hanh D. Brown

Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long. Three questions tell you how long your job lives past AI. Name the capabilities. Rank them by AI improvement rate. The slowest one decides. ai-careers ai-and-work reading-ai-news Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not reshape every job at the same speed. It improves some capabilities …

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Tokenomics, or how to budget a single conversation · Hanh D. Brown

Tokenomics, or how to budget a single conversation. AI bills come in confusing units. The fix is to budget for the product the business sells: tokens. Cost per token is the only metric that compares two quotes. ai-economics ai-strategy ai-and-work If you have ever looked at an Artificial Intelligence (AI) bill and wondered whether the …

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The transparent battlefield and the end of secrecy · Hanh D. Brown

The transparent battlefield and the end of secrecy. A frozen front line in Ukraine teaches the future of warfare. Big, slow, heat-emitting platforms lose. The fix is procurement, not budget. ai-policy ai-hardware ai-markets The military hardware America spent seventy years buying may not survive its first real engagement. A frozen front line in Ukraine teaches …

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