Lessons from a Startup Life
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The AI Layoff Myth: Why “Boomer Removal” Isn’t What’s Really Happening
The headlines say AI is coming for older workers. The data says the opposite: AI displacement is hitting the young hardest.
AI’s Uneven Generational Impact
Goldman Sachs estimates AI is erasing roughly 16,000 net jobs a month, with the pa...
The Rise of the GTM Engineer
A new role is quietly taking shape across AI startups, and it doesn’t fit neatly into any existing org chart. Startup founders and CEOs are calling it the “GTM Engineer,” and its emergence tells us something important about how revenue gets...
The Renegotiated Bargain: Why Engineering Morale Is Collapsing
For a long time, software engineering offered one of the most reliable trades in the professional economy. You exchanged years of difficult learning for durable competence, and that competence bought you autonomy, security, and a credible s...
The UK Just Drew the Next Decade’s Regulatory Perimeter
Everyone is filing the UK’s new under-16 social media ban under “child safety.” That’s the wrong lens. Read carefully, it’s an early blueprint for how liberal democracies intend to govern attention-shaping platforms—and, increasingly, AI....
What Anthropic’s Export-Control Shutdown Reveals About AI Governance
This past Friday evening, Anthropic said it received a letter from the U.S. government imposing export controls on its two newest models, Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, citing national security concerns.
The catch is in how the export...
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