Generative AI

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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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. 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. 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. 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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What revision is actually there to do for your thinking. Revision is the architect’s move. Five things it is for. One thing it is not. revision writing-craft working-method A draft that is not landing has two possible faults. The sentences are wrong, or the plan the sentences are serving is wrong. Almost nobody checks the …

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A short defense of changing your mind out loud in public. Most writers write to appease readers. That is not expression. Changing your mind in public is what expression looks like when it has stopped appeasing. voice thinking-in-public identity creative-process Most writers write to appease readers. That is not expression. That is performance for someone …

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On reading the fifteen books I keep failing to finish. Fifteen books I have started multiple times. None of them is the book’s fault. The architect in me is still reading them. creative-process writing-craft working-method There are seven books on a shelf in the room where I write. Each one has a marker in it. …

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On inheriting a name across a language and a country. My name is Hanh Dang. I am Hanh D. Brown now. The D is what survived. identity family memoir My name is Hanh Dang. I was born with that name in Vietnam. I arrived in America at eight. I married a Brown thirty-something years ago …

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The AI Public Awareness Gap Is Becoming the Real Story. Inside the labs the curve holds. Outside the labs the argument holds. The gap between the two pictures is the real story of 2026. ai-2026 ai-public-awareness-gap ai-scaling-laws ai-interpretability ai-regulation I keep coming back to the same gap when I read about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in …

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