I keep a folder of sentences I have not implemented yet. I do not call it the almost folder. I do not call it the failure folder. I call it the working folder, because the work is what is in it. I believe in starting before I know what to do. The discipline is to …
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Short answer How do you check whether a policy claim is true? Check a policy claim in three steps. Confirm the citation exists. Then read the passage yourself, because a citation checker only proves the reference is real, not that the sentence is true. Then ask whether anyone has actually read the rule, since nothing …
Short answer What is the difference between a statute, a rule and guidance? A statute is written by Congress, a rule by an agency after public comment, and guidance is the agency explaining itself. Statutes and rules bind. Guidance usually does not, but under the Medicare Act a policy statement can still set a binding …
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Editing fixes sentences. Revision rewrites the spec. Most writers spend their careers doing the first when the second is what is wrong. IN THIS ESSAY 01The gold standard is the spec, the contract 02Three signs you should revise, not edit, titles, close, polish 03What I do, in order, five steps 04I write in modules, so …
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Short answer Why is the Roman-legion company the wrong shape for 2026? Companies shaped like a Roman legion put humans in the middle as the conduit for information up and down a hierarchy. AI breaks that assumption. The shape that wins now is a set of recursive loops that sense, decide, act, check, and learn …
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When I write, I picture a cabin in the mountains. I have never lived in one. The picture is enough. It quiets my mind and lets it move. That is the first thing I learned about writing. The room is mostly in my head. For years I thought I needed what writers are told to …
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Short answer What is the real test of AI in the next five years? The real test of AI in the next five years is whether it reaches the people who need it most. The frontier capability is being absorbed by enterprises and hedge funds that already had access to capability. The audience that would …
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Short answer Which workers does AI hit first, and what does the forecast actually say? White-collar work goes first. Blue-collar work goes later. The industrial-era story has the order wrong. Anything that lives in bits gets automated now. Anything that needs hands on atoms takes longer. Abundance and unrest arrive together in three to seven …
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AI’s Economic Future: Slow Upside, Fast Downside, Weak Links. A chain breaks at one link and strengthens one at a time. That asymmetry is why AI’s economic upside arrives slowly and its downside arrives fast. ai-economics ai-policy ai-careers A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes the strong links …
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AI Is Not a Faster Chip. It Is a Reinvention of Computing.. AI is not a faster chip. It is a wholesale reinvention of how computers work, and the sentence the chip-and-forecast discussion does not say is the one that matters most. ai-hardware ai-economics ai-policy For sixty years, software was written by humans typing rules …
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