Letter
A letter when there is something to say.
I write when the thesis moves, not on a content calendar. When a claim I filed gets tested, or the market does something the press has not priced in yet, you get a letter. That is the whole deal.
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What the letter reads like
- The Portable AestheticSeven years ago I argued that technical craft would be overtaken by taste. The labor market is conceding the point.
- Rome Is BurningThree fires in one week. A Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion, an arson at a toilet paper factory, a mall ablaze. The common thread is not crime. It's what happens when you replace human judgment with spreadsheets.
- Technocratic Decadence ThesisWestern tech is decaying because leadership has been decoupled from competence, replacing builders with spreadsheet theater and image management.