Outlook 2026: Adding Friction
The frictionless economy has a ceiling. Why the pendulum is swinging back toward the slow, the deliberate, and the in-person — and why a drugstore that keeps the mouthwash in jail has already lost.
Outlook 2024: Downstream Effects
Generative AI brings the cost of making content to zero, and the rational response to infinite supply is the return of the monoculture: the events everyone shows up for. The book's argument, two years before the book.
How COVID-19 Is Leading Us to the Metaverse, Part One
Written six weeks into lockdown, when the culture's first answer to "what happens when we can't be together" was Fortnite. The answer was wrong in the way everyone's was. The question is the book.