By topic.
36 essays · 6 categories
On AI
11 essays- № 33
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On policy
5 essays- № 34
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Personal
12 essays- № 49
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Long reads
27 essays- № 49
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Issue 14 · May 2026 Subscribe
By topic.
36 essays · 6 categories
On AI
AI
AI Cost Per Token: Why GPU Hour Is the Wrong Bill
AI bills come in confusing units. The fix is to budget for the product the business sells: tokens. Cost per token is the only metric that compares two quotes.
ai
AI Chip Performance: Why Blackwell Delivers 50x, Not 2x
ai
AI Productivity: Five Percent of Your Job, Leveraged 20x
ai
Code Is No Longer a Moat. The New AI Moats Are Elsewhere.
ai
How AI Chips Work: The Pause Is Where the Work Lives
ai
AI Orchestration: The Blind Spot Is Not the Model
ai
AI Is Not a Faster Chip. It Is a Reinvention of Computing.
ai
The Roman Legion Is the Wrong Shape for Your Company
ai
What the machine cannot say
ai
The model that knew too much
ai
How i make the images
On aging
Aging
The Work AI Cannot Replace: My Mother and Higher-Value Care
aging
Abundance and Unrest Hit the Middle of the Labor Market
aging
AI's Real Test: Reaching the People Who Need It Most
On policy
policy
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.
policy
Open Weights AI: Distribution Decides Whose Values Win
policy
AI Agent Governance: Treat the Agent Like an Employee
policy
AI Safety Is Not What They Say. It Is What They Gave Up.
policy
AI's Economic Future: Slow Upside, Fast Downside, Weak Links
News
News
Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long
Three questions tell you how long your job lives past AI. Name the capabilities. Rank them by AI improvement rate. The slowest one decides.
news
How to Read AI News: Three Layers, One Sentence Skipped
news
Venture Capital and AI: Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year
news
AI Hype vs Reality: Four Tells in Every Announcement
Personal
Personal
On inheriting a name
personal
What revision is for
personal
The room where i write
personal
What revision actually is
personal
The sentences i keep
personal
The other twenty years
personal
On writing like you mean it.
personal
Why i do this
personal
The voice i was avoiding
personal
What this is going to be
Long reads
personal
On inheriting a name
My name is Hanh Dang. I am Hanh D. Brown now. The D is what survived.
personal
On reading what i cannot finish
personal
A short defense of changing your mind
policy
Transparent Battlefield: The Frozen Front and the Lost Inventory
ai
AI Cost Per Token: Why GPU Hour Is the Wrong Bill
news
Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long
news
How to Read AI News: Three Layers, One Sentence Skipped
policy
Open Weights AI: Distribution Decides Whose Values Win
news
Venture Capital and AI: Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year
aging
The Work AI Cannot Replace: My Mother and Higher-Value Care
policy
AI Agent Governance: Treat the Agent Like an Employee
ai
AI Chip Performance: Why Blackwell Delivers 50x, Not 2x
ai
AI Productivity: Five Percent of Your Job, Leveraged 20x
ai
Code Is No Longer a Moat. The New AI Moats Are Elsewhere.
ai
How AI Chips Work: The Pause Is Where the Work Lives
policy
AI Safety Is Not What They Say. It Is What They Gave Up.
news
AI Hype vs Reality: Four Tells in Every Announcement
ai
AI Orchestration: The Blind Spot Is Not the Model
aging
Abundance and Unrest Hit the Middle of the Labor Market
ai
The Roman Legion Is the Wrong Shape for Your Company
personal
What revision actually is
personal
The other twenty years
ai
What the machine cannot say
ai
The model that knew too much
ai
How i make the images
aging
What my mother did not teach me
personal
The voice i was avoiding