Issue 14 · July 2026

Late in the day, early on the future.

Essays on AI, aging, and the questions nobody quite warned us about.

41 essays Podcast Fresh every week

Featured essays

What Should Your Kid Learn When AI Does the Heavy Lifting?

Deep-Tech AI: Why Wrappers Lose When AGI Arrives in Year Five

AlphaFold Did a Billion Years of Work in One. Bottleneck Moved.

The AI Public Awareness Gap Is Becoming the Real Story

When Will AGI Arrive? The Four-Word Gap on the Way to 2030

Latest

On inheriting a name

My name is Hanh Dang. I am Hanh D. Brown now. The D is what survived.

On reading what I cannot finish

Fifteen books I have started multiple times. None of them is the book's fault. The architect in me is still reading them.

A short defense of changing your mind

Most writers write to appease readers. That is not expression. Changing your mind in public is what expression looks like when it has stopped appeasing.

AI

AI Cost Per Token: Why GPU Hour Is the Wrong Bill

From the podcast

ChatGPT Is Adding Ads. Can You Still Trust It?

OpenAI Just Paused Health AI to Fight Google

White House Opens Your Health Data to AI

More essays

What revision is for

Transparent Battlefield: The Frozen Front and the Lost Inventory

Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long

How to Read AI News: Three Layers, One Sentence Skipped

Open Weights AI: Distribution Decides Whose Values Win

Venture Capital and AI: Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year

The Work AI Cannot Replace: My Mother and Higher-Value Care

AI Agent Governance: Treat the Agent Like an Employee

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