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Incomplete Worlds
It’s interesting and concerning to know that every time you use an LLM, you are only seeing a fraction of the world. It’s like using a 50mm lens on your camera; to see the full picture, you need a fisheye.
The problem is that LLMs are so...
Three Contemporary Wall Street Archetypes
News happens so fast that it ends up as a blur, but if you press pause and start to rewind slowly, you start to notice how strange things are.
“The market” is no longer watched only by traders, analysts, and CEOs.
It’s being watched by...
Strategy Is Back
Did agencies jettison strategy at precisely the wrong moment?
Is the AI-machine-driven slop industrial complex fundamentally broken?
With the arrival of a new LLM-focused customer journey and companies needing to be machine and agent-read...
The Cybertruck Years
The Cybertruck always fascinated me. It was such an obvious ploy to dial up the play to America, in a way that Tesla’s boring sedans never could.
It’s a tough, militarized, prepper wagon that promised much, including a low price and some...
The Future for the Ad Agency Strategist
This is a story about advertising, but it is more than that.
It is about what happens to a profession when the word it uses for its most important work drifts free of the duty the word was invented to describe, and what happens when a new...
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