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Talking to Machines Like They're People
First we read from screens. Now the screens are reading us. What happens when we don't need to transpose intent into pixels?
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The Grammar of Thought
The people writing the invisible rules for how billions of humans learn to think are the same people who thought "move fast and break things" was a business philosophy rather than a cautionary tale from Greek mythology about hubris and inevitable comeuppance.
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The AI That Knows How to Use Other AI
The app store is dead. Long live the agent marketplace.
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The AI Stack Is Not What You Think
Forget front-end, back-end, and cloud. Think brains, hands, and memory.
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The End of Copy-Paste Work
Your workflow of tabs and toggle-switches is about to go the way of the fax machine. Why the way we “use” software today—jumping between dashboards, spreadsheets, docs, and to-do lists—is quietly becoming obsolete.
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Your Job Isn't Going Away. It's Just Becoming Less Clicky
You're not being replaced—you're being upgraded. What's happening with AI isn't an extinction event for knowledge work. It's an evolutionary pressure, pushing human contribution up the value chain while machines handle increasingly sophisticated routine tasks.
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The End of Apps as We Know Them
Forget app fatigue—the future isn't more tools, but a single conversation. Here's how Model Context Protocol eliminated my browser tab nightmare and built a digital workspace I can actually trust.
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Why Your Next App Might Be an AI Skill
Your Next App is a Skill0:00/904.4800226757371× The Lightning-Rod Protocol No trumpet fanfare announced its arrival; the Model Context Protocol—MCP to friends and future historians—slipped onto GitHub last November like a stray comet, all JSON and good intentions. Within weeks it began to glow in unexpected
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What Comes After the Internet
Every generation gets its Gutenberg moment. Ours just talks back. If the printing press gave us literacy and the internet gave us access, the age of useful machines is giving us something stranger: systems that respond.
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RACI is Dead, Long Live ACTIVE
When machines take the tasks, humans must own the meaning.