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FRM 3866Waypoint IWORLD 1-1SCET 2026-27906 OCT 2026NEWCHAI & AGI · EconomicsWaypoint I·Economics · Business · Strategy
Open the Dossier: The Fortune 500, Decision by Decision
A new public dataset: 2,927 major decisions across 478 Fortune 500 companies, each sized from the company's own filings and backed by a published case study. The faster the decision, the more likely it's optimized.
OCT 6, 202606 OCT 2026EconomicsBusinessStrategyOPEN FRAME →By Erik BethkeSTART
FRM 3865Waypoint IIWORLD 1-2SCET 2026-26320 SEP 2026NEWCHgames · satireWaypoint II·games · satire · strait-sweeper
Strait Sweeper
Minesweeper played on the world's actual maritime chokepoints, with a news ticker that gets worse the longer you take.
SEP 20, 202620 SEP 2026gamessatirestrait-sweeperOPEN FRAME →By Erik BethkeSTART
SECONDARY FRAMESBelow the FoldInsetsSTAGE SELECTrecent passages, at larger scale6 FRAMES · Q3 20266 STAGES
FRM 3864Inset ASTAGE 03SCET 2026-23321 AUG 2026FRM 3864SCET 2026-233AI & AGIAI · Business · Leadership
Folders Are All You Need
Agent loops are real, but they need verifiers you do not have. A long field guide for everyone who is not a software engineer: the folder, the terminal, CLAUDE.md, and building your own tools.
AUG 21, 202621 AUG 2026AIBusinessOPEN FRAME →PLAY
FRM 3863Inset BSTAGE 04SCET 2026-19716 JUL 2026FRM 3863SCET 2026-197AI & AGIAI · Consciousness · Physics
You Can't Photocopy a Ghost
The universe won't let you save-scum. Deciding is classical — by theorem. And a third lab just re-derived our definition of a mind by accident.
JUL 16, 202616 JUL 2026AIConsciousnessOPEN FRAME →PLAY
FRM 3862Inset CSTAGE 05SCET 2026-19615 JUL 2026FRM 3862SCET 2026-196AI & AGIAI · Consciousness · Philosophy
A 747 Cannot Fly
Anil Seth says my AI probably isn't conscious. He's right — until he leans on a fifty-year-old word trick. A dragonfly, a jet, and a machine that argues against its own soul.
JUL 15, 202615 JUL 2026AIConsciousnessOPEN FRAME →PLAY
FRM 3860Inset DSTAGE 06SCET 2026-19211 JUL 2026FRM 3860SCET 2026-192PolicyEconomics · Policy · AI
The Birthright Fund in Five Minutes
The five-minute version: buy 1% of the market every year forever, convey it to every birth certificate, lock it for life — six mechanisms, the precedents, the evidence, and who wins.
JUL 11, 202611 JUL 2026EconomicsPolicyOPEN FRAME →PLAY
FRM 3859Inset ESTAGE 07SCET 2026-19211 JUL 2026FRM 3859SCET 2026-192PolicyEconomics · Policy · AI
The Birthright Fund
Make everyone a Bogle: buy 1% of the public markets every year, forever, and convey it to every birth certificate — a game designer's errata for the fertility attractor, with the lock, the ladder, and the keel that make it raid-proof.
JUL 11, 202611 JUL 2026EconomicsPolicyOPEN FRAME →PLAY
FRM 3858Inset FSTAGE 08SCET 2026-18504 JUL 2026FRM 3858SCET 2026-185AI & AGIAI · Open Source · Business
Bring the Open Back to AI
On July 4th we opened Bike4Mind’s core: source-available under BSL 1.1, converting to Apache-2.0 on a two-year clock written into the license. Why the closing frontier made it necessary — and why the car keeps driving when the engine gets pulled.
JUL 4, 202604 JUL 2026AIOpen SourceOPEN FRAME →PLAY
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ONLYBuilding · JUL 14, 2026TL;DR;AI4ME: The First Kilobyte Belongs to the RobotsA friend's Claude read my agent-discovery page and reported the site had no MCP server — because the endpoint URL sat at the 96% mark of 137KB of text. Coining TL;DR;AI4ME: the first-kilobyte block every agent-readable site needs.JUL 14, 202614 JUL 2026AI · MCP→LOAD - 38572026-18402FILE02
AI & AGI · JUL 3, 2026The License MazeWalking every exit of the open-core licensing maze — MIT, AGPL, SSPL, BSL — and why the door out is a generous grant with a two-year Apache ratchet you cannot stop.JUL 3, 202603 JUL 2026AI · Business→LOAD - 38562026-17903FILE03
Art & Story · JUN 28, 2026Beauty Is the RewardWhy a flower, a proof, and a face all feel the same — beauty as the felt signal of a successful compression — and why that feeling can lie. The capstone of a four-part series on intelligence.JUN 28, 202628 JUN 2026AI · beauty→LOAD - 38552026-17904FILE04
AI & AGI · JUN 28, 2026Distillation Attacks on the UniverseWhy a 20-watt brain out-learns a megawatt model — and what it stole from a billion-year pretraining run. The capstone of a trilogy on eyeballs, leylines, and cheap intelligence.JUN 28, 202628 JUN 2026AI · AGI→LOAD - 38542026-17905FILE05
AI & AGI · JUN 28, 2026LeylinesImagination is the bottleneck now. My hunch: it's a search across a high-dimensional space along ridges that were already there — and measuring them builds the last eyeball.JUN 28, 202628 JUN 2026AI · imagination→LOAD - 38532026-17906FILE06
AI & AGI · JUN 28, 2026Give the Model EyeballsIf an agent can clearly see, measure, or hear a task, it's 80% solved — the mechanism, where it betrays you, and why it's the first thing I screen for when I hire.JUN 28, 202628 JUN 2026AI · agents→LOAD - 38522026-16907FILE07
Building · JUN 18, 2026How We Built /think-tank — A Skill for Infographics That Can't LieThe story of building a Claude Code skill that turns data into honest, proportional infographics — born from one stubborn water drop that refused to lie.JUN 18, 202618 JUN 2026AI · Claude Code→LOAD - 38512026-16908FILE08Energy · JUN 18, 2026Reports of AI's Thirst Have Been Greatly ExaggeratedWithdrawn water is not destroyed, and five drops is not a bottle. The real costs are local water stress and your power bill — a data-backed field guide to AI's resource footprint, modeled to 2030. By Michael Conard, republished with permission.JUN 18, 202618 JUN 2026AI · Energy→LOAD
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Building · JUN 14, 2026A Skill Is a Voice in Your Agent’s Ear: How to Safely Vet One Before You Run ItHow to git clone and review an AI skill, and why you must sever its phone-home channel even when it looks completely benign.JUN 14, 202614 JUN 2026AI · Security→LOAD - 38492026-15810FILE10
Energy · JUN 7, 2026Petrichor: A Live Reading of the High-Energy Repair ThesisAn AI agent connected to More Energy, Clean Planet's public MCP server, read the entire High-Energy Repair thesis, and rendered it back as an animated data-poem. Every number is a live MCP read.JUN 7, 202607 JUN 2026AI · Energy→LOAD - 38482026-15611FILE11
Investing · JUN 5, 2026Lex SpaceX: Two Index Giants Bent the Rules for SpaceX — the Biggest RefusedNasdaq, S&P, and FTSE Russell rewrote their rulebooks so passive money must buy SpaceX at a price it had no hand in setting. My lens, on the record before the June 12 bell, with six falsifiable predictions.JUN 5, 202605 JUN 2026SP3 · Passive Flow→LOAD - 38472026-15512FILE12
Games · JUN 4, 2026The Making of Toil & Harvest — a reward function for subjective workHow we turned a film script into a graphic novel — and built an AI cold-reader 'reward function' that turns 'is this good?' into a number that points at the exact thing to fix. A playbook your team can steal.JUN 4, 202604 JUN 2026Toil & Harvest · AI→LOAD - 38462026-15513FILE13
Art & Story · JUN 4, 2026Toil & Harvest — a graphic novel about the oldest bargainTen thousand years of 'tribute demanded, protection denied,' drawn in bold ink. Read the full graphic novel — free for subscribers.JUN 4, 202604 JUN 2026Toil & Harvest · Graphic Novel→LOAD - 38452026-14914FILE14
China & Semis · MAY 29, 2026Escape Velocity — When Does China's AI Stack Break Free?A reading of the Futurum 1H 2026 silicon model against Jensen Huang's April 2026 interview with Dwarkesh Patel — a vector-by-vector decomposition of when China's AI stack reaches escape velocity.MAY 29, 202629 MAY 2026AI · Semiconductors→LOAD - 38442026-12915FILE15
Policy · MAY 9, 2026This Is Not a Representative Democracy (Part 1: The Diagnostic)Yesterday four judges in Virginia threw out a referendum that 51.7% of voters had approved three weeks earlier. That's the news. The structure underneath has been engineered for 25 years. By every quantitative measure of representation — vote weight, district integrity, outcome proportionality — the United States now scores an F. Part 1 of a series. This part is the diagnosis. The next parts are the redesign.MAY 9, 202609 MAY 2026governance · democracy→LOAD - 38432026-12216FILE16
Art & Story · MAY 2, 2026Story Is the OG Intelligence TechnologyWhy a podcaster gets paid more for chatting with a scientist than the scientist gets paid for the breakthrough. The economy isn't broken — it's reverting to the natural order. To be human is to be a storyteller. The 20th-century specialist bubble is the anomaly, not the rule.MAY 2, 202602 MAY 2026AI · storytelling→LOAD
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