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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.

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Outlook Adam Simon Outlook Adam Simon

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.

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