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agenticeconomytreatise.com

The Agentic Economy

Explore the argument that intelligence and the economy are converging into a single new system.

adamhjk.com

A practical guide to reducing token spend

Building a Swamp Workflow reduced real world token usage of an AI Agent by 8x and improved execution time by 2x.

larp.website

LARP: Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

Send them $10,000. They send you $10,000. You’ve both booked $10,000 in revenue. Cash never moves. Everybody’s a rocketship.

hermit-tech.com

AI mania is eviscerating global decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

replit.com

The self-driving company

We are beginning to see what happens when a company learns to operate itself.

vaughntan.org

Against bigness

Organisations say they want innovation but keep killing it. The problem is the organisational decision-making machinery.

herbertlui.net

Creative focus

This year is Apple’s 50th year in business. Decades ago, it lost creative focus, and spread itself too thin.

nngroup.com

Stop reporting UX activity and report business outcomes

UX teams should report business outcomes to show impact on revenue, cost, risk, speed, retention, and to secure resources.

uxdesign.cc

The organizational cost of low taste

When taste is weak, everything survives long enough to demand justification, and the organization slowly confuses activity with progress.

mcsweeneys.net

AI economics for dummies

A few examples to help the average layperson understand the business side of AI.

robert-glaser.de

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

What changed because we spent those tokens?

isaiprofitable.com

Is AI profitable yet?

Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies.

every.to

After automation

AI progress creates more work for humans, not less.

smashingmagazine.com

Ten data-backed truths of UX ROI

Facts that link user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth.

joanwestenberg.com

The “passive income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

How chasing passive income destroys the focus needed to build meaningful products.

greaterwrong.com

The world can’t keep up with AI Labs

Rapid AI scaling outpaces our ability to build safety guardrails.

warman.life

The moat or the commons

American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly.

robonomics.substack.com

Org design in the age of AI

Everyone is adding AI to their workflows. Almost no one is rethinking why the workflow is shaped that way in the first place.

30u30.fyi

30 Under 30: Fraud Watch

We track the burn, the hype, and the inevitable pivot to litigation.

seangoedecke.com

Working on products people hate

Why building hated tools is often more impactful than building ignored ones.