Oracle fired 30,000 people this morning with a 6 AM email. Not because Oracle is struggling. Because Oracle is winning — and winning now means converting human payroll into AI infrastructure as fast as the balance sheet allows. I want to zoom out from that headline. Oracle is not the story. Oracle is a symptom. The story is what's been building for two years, and what a lot of people are about to finally understand the hard way. I have been saying this since early 2024. The r

This morning, tens of thousands of people woke up, checked their phones, and found out they no longer had a job. Not from their manager. Not from HR. From an email sent by 'Oracle Leadership' at 6:00 a.m. The email was brief, formal, and identical across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico. Your role has been eliminated. Today is your final working day. Sign the DocuSign to receive severance. Your system access has already been revoked. Somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 peopl

Today is April 1, 1976. In a garage in Los Altos, California, three people sign a document and start a company. Steve Jobs. Steve Wozniak. Ronald Wayne. The company is called Apple Computer. The first product is a circuit board hand-assembled by Woz on his workbench. No case. No keyboard included. No operating system manual. Just raw silicon and a vision that most people at the time would have called laughable.They incorporated on April Fools' Day — which, fifty years later,

I wrote about this last year. Not in an academic paper. Not in a think piece with seventeen citations. In a blog post about CrossFit for your brain, a client who cried, and the guy who watched two YouTube videos on crypto and now offers unsolicited wealth advice. The point was simple: AI is the first tool in history that lets you be wrong without shame. And that is an incredible gift — if you use it right. But there is a dark side to that same feature, and a new paper out of

There is a certain kind of irony that only the AI era could produce. Yesterday, an engineer named Kevin Naughton Jr. posted one of the more remarkable confessions in recent tech history. As the engineer responsible for shipping the latest dev/claude-code npm package, he wanted to improve the debugging experience for his team. Noble goal. Standard practice. So he included source maps in the release. If you are not a developer, here is what that means: source maps are essential

For the last decade, the technology sector has operated under a simple, brute-force paradigm: if you want faster data processing, higher-resolution simulations, or smarter AI, you buy more silicon. You build a bigger data center. You consume more power. But physical infrastructure eventually hits a wall. Today, the constraints of power grids, cooling systems, and memory bandwidth are bottlenecking the next leap in computing. And the industry is rediscovering an old truth: whe

INCIDENT — Published March 31, 2026. Details still emerging. I've spent over thirty years in cybersecurity. I've watched a lot of attacks unfold. What happened today with Axios may be the most technically sophisticated supply chain attack ever executed against the open source ecosystem. What Is Axios and Why Should You Care? Axios is the HTTP client library that lets JavaScript applications talk to the internet. Over 83 million downloads a week. 174,000 projects depend on it

August 2023. That's when I first wrote about it. Not as a prediction. As an observation about something that was already happening — the slow, inevitable collapse of the industrial-era classroom model and the arrival of something better. The piece was called Back to School or a New Dawn in Education? Most people scrolled past it. A few thought I was being optimistic. Some thought I was being naive. This week, Mackenzie Price, co-founder and CEO of Alpha Schools, sat down wit

About a year ago I started saying the App Store was dead. Not today-dead. Not literally-no-apps-exist dead. But dead in the way that matters strategically — dead as a paradigm, dead as the dominant interface layer between humans and computing, dead as the thing developers should be building toward. I got flack for it. I still get flack for it. So let me update the thesis — not to say I told you so, but because we can now see the entire shape of what's coming. And it's bigger

Everyone thinks Apple lost the AI race. What if they've been playing a different game all along? Not the hyperscaler race. Not the frontier model race. Not even the benchmark race. A different game entirely — the one that matters most when 1.5 billion people carry your hardware in their pocket every single day. Let's talk about what's actually coming at WWDC. And more importantly, what it means for where phones, software, and AI agents are going in the second half of 2026. Fi

There's a quiet shift happening in how AI actually works — and most people are still treating it like a prompt problem. In October 2025, Anthropic launched something called Agent Skills. A folder. A markdown file. A methodology written in plain English. The internet mostly shrugged. Six months later, Microsoft shipped Skills into the sidebars of Excel and PowerPoint. OpenAI followed. The format became an open standard. And now the same .md file you write once works across Cla

There are decisions in life you make alone. And then there are decisions — the real ones — where you know better than to act without counsel. I needed new glasses. Not just any glasses. Meta glasses. The ones with the AI built in. The ones that are either the beginning of ambient computing as a daily reality or the most expensive way to look slightly confused in public. And I knew, before I clicked "add to cart," before I walked into any store, before I entertained a single o

If you’re just getting into AI, let me save you a lot of time: You do not need a secret prompt framework. You do not need “ 8 prompts that change everything. ” You do not need to sound like a prompt engineer. You do not need to memorize viral templates from people claiming breakthroughs. What you need is much simpler: You need to learn how to communicate clearly with the model. That’s it. The problem with what you’re seeing right now There’s a wave of AI content going aroun

A lot has happened since OpenClaw hit. And it wasn't that long ago. I usually do these — this week in AI, this month, whatever. I haven't done one in a while. But enough is in place now that I can say: from where I'm standing, here's what I see coming. And I think most of this lands inside a three-year arc. Let me map it out. Context Frame We are not in AGI. We are in pre-AGI industrialization — infrastructure scaling, systems hardening, capability distribution. At the same t

Alright. Let me try to say this clean...Because yeah — I know. I've been loud about this. But this isn't another "AI changes everything" post. This is about capability. Not AI. Not tools. Not being technical. Capability. The simple fact that right now — you can do things that used to require teams, time, money, and coordination. Now you can just start. I've been trying to explain this for a while. There are 900+ articles on this site. Most of them orbit the same idea from dif

Everyone talks about what AI can do for your marketing. Here's what it actually did.. Two weeks ago, I stopped running my content operation the old way. No editorial calendar sitting in a Google doc. No agency sending a monthly report. No 'we'll have insights for you next quarter.' I plugged in ARIA — my personal cognitive OS — and let it run alongside me. Not instead of me. Alongside me. Here's what happened. The Numbers (Week 2) 54,072 impressions. 25,164 members reached.

This is not a product launch post. It's closer to an explanation — of something I've been building for almost three years, why it exists, who it's actually for, and why I've chosen to make it available to a very small number of people. I'll try to be honest about all of it. The Problem Nobody Names Correctly If you are the person everyone depends on — the one carrying decisions, relationships, strategy, follow-through, and visibility across too many moving parts at once — you

I didn't set out to build a company. I didn't set out to build a product. Honestly, I didn't even set out to build "AI" in any meaningful sense. I was just trying to get through a project without losing my mind. The Accidental Beginning Back in August of 2023 — literally the day before my birthday, which still feels like a weird cosmic joke — I was working on a digital strategy for an artist. Nothing crazy. Keyword research. Content planning. Website structure. The usual "tur

There's a moment that happened this week that I keep thinking about. I was driving down the street on the way to another meeting. A call came in. I hit record — nothing fancy, just a tap — and let the conversation happen. By the time I pulled into my next stop, the meeting was already over. But so was everything else that usually comes after a meeting. The recording had been automatically transcribed. The transcription had been processed into a tactical summary. The summary h

How the Future Started Arriving All at Once. I grew up on the future. Not the real one — the scheduled one. The kind that lived in magazines and predictions, where every breakthrough came with a timestamp. Flying cars? "Someday." Artificial intelligence? "A few decades out." Even when something revolutionary was announced, you still had to wait for it to arrive. That was the unspoken agreement: you'd see the future first… and then, eventually, you'd live in it. But somewhere

I’ve been thinking about last night pretty much since I woke up. It was one of those events where nothing felt overly flashy, but a couple things stuck in a way that doesn’t really let go. Not because they were perfectly explained, but because they pointed at something real. There were two talks. Very different angles, but together they kind of formed a bigger picture that I don’t think either one was explicitly trying to make. The first talk: work is getting compressed had t

Jimmy from Data Power Supply and I got there early. We ended up walking the space a bit, checking everything out—it’s a really cool setup. Clean, modern, lots of room to move around. Definitely the kind of place you want to host something like this. Took a few photos, jumped on a couple calls, just normal work stuff while things were getting going. Then the event kicked off. The Room Fills In... As people started coming in, you could feel it pretty quickly—this was a good cro

AI isn't dividing the world into winners and losers. It's dividing it into two different species. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir — the company whose software helps governments and intelligence agencies automate decision-making at planetary scale — went on record this week telling people to skip elite colleges. His reasoning was surgical: unless you're neurodivergent, the only path left with real durability is skilled trades. Electricians. Carpenters. Machinists. People who wo

How one jury verdict just unlocked the floodgates on Big Tech's biggest legal nightmare On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google negligent for knowingly engineering addictive products that harmed the mental health of a young user. The award was $6 million. The headlines called it a landmark. The lawyers called it a referendum. They're both underselling it. This wasn't a verdict. It was a gate opening. What Actually Happened The case centered on a 20-year-old wom