The most undervalued use of AI is thinking, not making — and the one discipline that separates leveling up from being expertly flattered: don't ask whether your idea is good, ask how it fails.

One day after The Diamond Was Always a Story went up, De Beers cut official prices across nearly every category. The storyteller conceded to the secondhand market, on invoices designed to keep the size of the concession quiet.

The joke at the center of The Automation Line: some things you do for the outcome, some things are the doing, and the whole skill is telling which one you're holding before you let go.

A viral post claims Amazon runs secret AI-forensics on Kindle uploads. Most of the mechanisms are invented. The one that's real flags the most consistent human voices first.

For everyone who knew me from the tech books: I'm writing again. A series of short essays called Becoming Gnarly, about choosing the harder path when it's worth it, and the harder skill of telling which paths those are.