Universal Basic Equity: Who Owns the AI Future?
If humanity’s accumulated knowledge helps create extraordinary AI wealth, should humanity receive more than a basic income?
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Ideas & Systems
Ideas, frameworks, and systems for understanding how technology, society, human thinking, and complex forces interact to shape the world.
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Are We Heading Toward a Selective Utopia for the Rich?
AI may make intelligence abundant. But if access to that intelligence remains unequal, the future could be extraordinarily good for some—and surprisingly difficult for everyone else.
What If Intelligence Is Older Than Life?
What if intelligence is not something that began with biological life? This deliberately unhinged hypothesis asks whether intelligence could be a deeper feature of reality—and whether what we call artificial intelligence is really discovering something much older.
Podcast Episode: AI, Writing, And Human Judgment
AI may compress management layers, change the value of human expertise and alter how we write. This podcast episode connects those ideas through one question: who holds the judgment when machines hold the scale?
Podcast Episode: Human Expertise In The AI Age
What happens to human expertise when AI makes intelligence cheap and scalable? This podcast episode explores Raw Intelligence, the Evaluator Economy, writing craft, AI model differences and the changing role of human judgment.
Friend of All Enemies: Can a Human Survive the AI Wars?
A satirical thought experiment: if humans, AI systems and robots ever become competing factions, can one clever human remain friends with everyone—and survive by backing whoever wins?
Writing Is a River
Good writing advice is everywhere. Be clear. Be concise. Use the active voice. Avoid clichés. Prefer simple words. Cut unnecessary words. But good writing is more than following rules—it is a process of thinking, revising and discovering what you actually mean.
How Not to Design a Product — The OneNote Adventure
I tried to use Microsoft OneNote as a long-term archive for my ChatGPT work. The experiment exposed a deeper problem: storing AI-assisted work is easy; designing a useful system for organizing, retrieving and working with it is much harder.
AI Will Help You Prove Yourself Right
The hidden danger is not that AI cannot research. It is that it can research your question exactly as you framed it.
The Other AI Bottleneck: It Is Not the Size of the Wand, but the Skill of the Magician
AI can be a Ferrari trapped on a one-lane road—but it can also be an extraordinary instrument in the hands of an ordinary user. The other AI bottleneck is the human ability to extract and direct its capability.
How do consumers in India choose between ordering from Amazon and ordering from Flipkart?
Flipkart Vs Amazon I have bitter-sweet experiences with both. Delivery Speed : Both are extremely fast. Flipkart always delivers before time in Mumbai at least. Flipkart has some…
7 dirty business tactics do you must know
7 unethical ways companies dupe you The great sale gimmick All of us have encountered a ‘50% off sale’ sign in shopping malls. This trick is particularly useful…
Why do the new MBAs fail to start their own businesses straight out of business school?
An MBA is a business administration and not a method of business creation. You can understand this by the following example. Suppose that you have a Bus service…
What are some mind hacks?
[pullquote] ‘Confidence is the greatest mind hack’ [/pullquote] ‘Confidence is the greatest mind hack’ I shall start with ‘negotiation’ hacks for salary. Power of silence : While negotiating anything…
Why do the new MBAs fail to start their own businesses straight out of business school?
MBA is business administration. You can understand this by following example. Suppose you have a Bus service plying along the city. You hire driver, conductor, cleaner. Now you…