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Nano Banana, Reviewed After Twelve Covers
Google's Gemini image models made every cover on this blog. Eleven generations in one day, three house styles over a month, a Flash versus Pro test. The verdict, with receipts. Read more...
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Linear vs Nonlinear Thinking: One Expects Steps, One Expects Them to Change
Linear thinking extends the slope. Nonlinear thinking asks which curve the data is the beginning of. The definition, the difference, the style, and when each one is right. Read more...
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Your Lowest Score Is Your Ceiling
Drive, Fidelity and Velocity multiply — they do not add. Which means your weakest variable caps everything else, and effort alone will not move it. Read more...
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Your LinkedIn Headline Is Not Working
Most profiles say what someone is. Almost none say who they help, what changes, and why anyone should believe it. The formula that fixes both the headline and the About... Read more...
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The AI-Native Class of Technical Workers
A generation of technical workers no longer uses AI — they author in it. What the AI-native class looks like, and how it works. Read more...
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The Reason Nobody Knows How Good You Are
Most of what you know never leaves your notes app. Here is why that happens to the sharpest people, and a low-pressure way to fix it: one signal, one post. Read more...
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Say What You Do in One Sentence
Most people cannot answer "what do you do?" in one breath. Here is the formula for a positioning statement you can say out loud, defend, and reuse everywhere. Read more...
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The Top of Mount Stupid: What Does It Even Mean?
What the top of Mount Stupid means, where the curve comes from, what the Dunning-Kruger research does and does not show, and four signs you are standing on it. Read more...
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Four Files That Make an Agent Yours
Most people give an AI assistant a long prompt and hope. Four separate files — soul, brain, playbook, memory — do something a prompt cannot, and here is why the... Read more...
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The 1% Tax
Everyone has the same models. Almost nobody has the same output. The gap is not access or talent — it is what you pay for using a fraction of what... Read more...
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The World Is Not Linear
We expect progress to move in straight lines. Compounding, networks, thresholds, feedback loops, power laws and AI do not. A field guide to thinking in curves instead of moments. Read more...
The Scaling Triad — a network visualization of Drive, Fidelity, and Velocity as multiplicatively coupled variables determining exponential value creation
The Scaling Triad: The Mathematical Framework for the Age of AI
Why do people with all the right ingredients fail to achieve exponential growth? The Scaling Triad (Σ = D × F × V) reveals the mathematical conditions for crossing the... Read more...
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Trust in the Age of Algorithms
In a world where algorithms curate 70% of the content we see online, how do we maintain our ability to think critically? This article explores the evolving nature of trust... Read more...