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Aug 25

Don’t Listen to Advice in the Age of AI. Including Mine.

Experience is not the same as understanding. A two-thousand-year-old fable about a donkey explains why even hard-earned experience can…

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Dec 17, 2025

Pretending to Whom?

The Absurdity of Democratized Perfection

Pretending to Whom?

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Jul 13, 2025

The AI Bubble Is Hiding the Real Revolution

The AI arms race is burning billions. The real winners are barely spending a dime.

Split-image composition showing two contrasting environments: on the left, a cold, blue-lit gothic cathedral symbolizing the grandeur and rigidity of Big Tech’s AI ambitions; on the right, a warm, sunlit hacker lab filled with young developers surrounded by green glowing tendrils of code, representing grassroots AI innovation.

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Jun 8, 2025

The end of prestige: How AI is quietly dismantling the elite professions

Death by unbundling: The quiet dismantling of the elite professions.

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Aug 10

Harvard Researchers Trained AI to Imitate Brain Activity. Then They Took the Model Apart.

A new study across four species points to a second use for AI: exposing what complexity hides.

A glowing human brain beside a transparent artificial neural network, with zebrafish, mouse, macaque, and human silhouettes feeding neural data into the model. The network is shown partially opened to reveal nodes, connections, heatmaps, and signal patterns, illustrating AI being used to analyze hidden interactions in brain activity.

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Jul 3

AI Made the Doctors Worse. You Might Be Next.

A Lancet study found that doctors performed worse when AI was switched off. The real danger is not that AI fails. It is that it helps so…

A cinematic image of a doctor in a dark operating room holding a medical scope while a blank monitor sits beside him. Faint digital neural patterns appear to drift from his head and hands, suggesting that reliance on AI has weakened his own clinical judgment and skill.

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Jan 17

Let Me Ruin Wall-E For You

The syntax error is the soul

Let Me Ruin Wall-E For You

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Jan 4

Utopia Is Possible

If We Engineer It in the Next 1,000 Days

A wide-angle photograph of construction engineers in hard hats watching a large, glowing blue cube etched with the text “INVARIANT” being lowered by a crane into a foundation. Above them, a digital clock reads “1,000 DAYS REMAINING.” The background features diverging architectural paths: the left leads toward a bright, futuristic city with green spaces, while the right leads into a dark, enclosed concrete tunnel.

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Dec 14, 2025

The Comfort of the Crash: Why ‘Not a Bubble’ Is the Scariest Scenario

We secretly hope it bursts because we aren’t ready for it to stay.

The Comfort of the Crash: Why ‘Not a Bubble’ Is the Scariest Scenario

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Nov 22, 2025

What I Learned Looking Into the Best Builders in History

The solo genius is a lie. But it is a necessary one.

A conceptual photograph showing a lone figure in a spotlight holding a blueprint. The long shadow cast behind him reveals a large, diverse team of people working together at desks. Overlay text at the bottom reads, “THE SOLO GENIUS IS A LIE.”

Samuel Z. Alemayehu

Samuel Z. Alemayehu

Tech investor & entrepreneur on the Great Restructuring: how technology is reshaping work, economies, and global production. WEF Young Global Leader.

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