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August 15, 2026

A Practical Futurist’s Guide to Not Losing Your Mind Over the AI Discourse This Week

Holy hell has it been a wild week in AI discourse. And (…*checks non-existent paper calendar on desk*…) it’s somehow still just Tuesday, friends. But even with almost every other conceivable angle and hot take exhausting itself, we haven’t really seen anyone offering what we’d recognize as the “practical futurist’s” position. So here we go.

1) Remember that the worst possible outcome is never the only possible outcome, and it’s rarely the most likely outcome. So when you see Jacob Coxon tweet that “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” well… sure. That’s probably pretty close to a worst possible outcome, which means that it exists at one extreme of a…

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August 25, 2026 — Working Theory #002

Cheap Intelligence, Expensive Companies

Among companies that have actually put AI into operations, through roughly the end of 2027, the cost of turning AI into operating advantage will be hourglass-shaped in company size – cheap for the very small, affordable for the very large, and worst for firms in the middle (call it fifty to a thousand employees).

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