Thoughts
a mix of shorter and longer rants
The Case For Influence Graphs In LLMs
A Thought Experiment on What Comes After Context Graphs
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The Melting Ice Cube: Michael Burry and the Great AI Depreciation War
From CoreWeave's debt-fueled expansion to Amazon's quiet reversal, the gap between GPU accounting and GPU reality is finally closing with implications for every AI bet on the table.
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The Ghost in the Waveform: How SoundCloud's Identity Crisis Opened the Door for Suno's $2.4B Valuation
SoundCloud built the infrastructure for AI music generation a decade early. Then they optimised for listeners instead of creators and lost everything that made them different.
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India’s AI Moment: The Long Shortcut
How a latecomer nation might still shape the future by scale, hunger, and voice
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The Great Productivity Paradox: Why We Built Perfect Systems We Never Used
How the quest for better tools became a journey of self-discovery, and why AI companions represent the beautiful end of the productivity optimization era.
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Fandom at Scale: The Dream That Keeps Breaking
A deep dive into why the company that tracks your every listening habit still can't build a decent fan club.
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Lost? Not Really: How digital maps keep us found and found us, too.
Because nothing says “I have my act together” like broadcasting to the world where you had avocado toast, all without looking like total narcissists (well, most of the time).
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Tuning Into the Micro: When Music Genres Get Granular
Unpacking the strange alchemy of micro-genres – forged from mood-playlists, AI tastemakers, snippetcore aesthetics, and astrological resonance – this is music's infinitely intricate identity crisis.
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Peek-A-Boo, I Don't See You: A Panoramic View of Consumer Cyber-Security
Will This Multi-Course Meal Be Served à la Carte or as a Security Sundae? We'll Also Explore the Menu (Sectors), Ingredients (Innovation), and Bill (Investment & Risks) with a Side of Skepticism.
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