Issue 14 · June 2026

Late in the day, early on the future.

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

39 essays Podcast Fresh every week

Featured essays

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

On inheriting a name

On reading what I cannot finish

Latest

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.

What revision is for

Revision is the architect's move. Five things it is for. One thing it is not.

Transparent Battlefield: The Frozen Front and the Lost Inventory

A frozen front line in Ukraine teaches the future of warfare. Big, slow, heat-emitting platforms lose. The fix is procurement, not budget.

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

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

How AI Chips Work: The Pause Is Where the Work Lives

AI Safety Is Not What They Say. It Is What They Gave Up.

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