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In 1943, Kelly Johnson’s crew built America’s first jet fighter in 143 days under a rented circus tent. Established companies running on a pre-agentic chassis need the same model now: small cross-functional teams, a secure sandbox, and air cover from the CEO.

First published on X. The App Store democratized distribution, not building. Now the builder tools themselves are going consumer, and the unit worth building is a template that behaves like a small company. Wedding OS is the proof.

A companion to the AI Meditations trilogy, first published on X. The extinction headlines are the flash; the likelier endings are control concentrated in the name of safety, and the slowpocalypse, the extinction with no event.

Part 3 of a three-part series. Asimov’s rulebook, Herbert’s warning, and six decades of art that was never really about the machines, but on what becomes of us once the thinking is turned over, and the humantic loop that closes the series.

Part 2 of a three-part series. A papal encyclical, a 1982 song about the future that never arrived, and an Anthropic co-founder telling the Pope that his own industry cannot reliably self-correct, on who is standing at the headwaters of the technology reshaping us.

Part 1 of a three-part series. An obscure Pavement B-side, a fake London restaurant, and Kahneman’s System 2, on how the tools we built to organize culture quietly started authoring it, and what that’s doing to the way we think.