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The Job Hong Kong Parents Hate Most is the One They Need the Most
TL;DR: A friend asked me for a job for his son but added, "Anything but sales." He wants his son to learn about "M&A and IPOs" to prepare for entrepreneurship. The irony? **M&A and IPOs are just h...
The Pivot: Stop Selling "Code." Start Selling "Liability."
TL;DR: The software agency model is dead. Selling "developer hours" in 2026 is like selling ice in Antarctica. AI tools like Claude Code have commoditized production, driving the cost of generatin...
The "Wrapper" Panic is Overrated: 7 Ways to Build a Real Moat in the AI Era
TL;DR: Every founder I meet is paralyzed by the same anxiety: _"Is my product just a ChatGPT wrapper?"_ or _"Won't Google just kill me next week?"_ These fears are valid—even the smartest kids at ...
The Great SaaS Crash of 2026: Why Agents Are Eating Software Valuations
TL;DR: The massive correction in SaaS stocks (Figma -78%, Duolingo -72%) is not a temporary market fluctuation. It is a fundamental repricing of reality. In the age of Agentic AI, the traditio...
Search is Dead. Long Live the "Yellow Pages."
TL;DR: In 2025, Google has become a landfill of AI-generated slime and SEO spam. As "General Search" breaks down, we are witnessing a counter-intuitive Renaissance: The return of the **Micro-Direc...
The "Zero Competitor" Trap: Why Smart Startups Optimize, They Don't Invent
TL;DR: I recently met a young founder pitching a "revolutionary" idea with zero competitors. He thought he was a genius; I saw a red flag. History (and bankruptcy courts) teaches us that "No Compe...
Code is Aluminum: A Survival Manifesto for the Post-Scarcity Engineer
In the 19th century, aluminum was more expensive than gold because it was hard to refine. Then, electricity made it cheap enough to wrap leftovers in. In 2026, AI has done the same thing to Software Code. We are living through the "Aluminum Moment" of engineering. If you are still treating code like a precious asset to be polished, you are already obsolete.
Stop Buying Backlinks. Start Engineering Your Attention.
TL;DR: Everyone obsesses over "Content Velocity" and "Backlinks." But the highest ROI move in SEO is the one you already control: Internal Linking. It isn't just navigation; it is **"Attention...
The Trap of "Ghost Equity": Why Ranking #1 Means Nothing in 2026
The most dangerous metric in marketing right now is "Position #1." I am seeing a terrifying trend: Companies with massive organic traffic are getting absolutely zero mentions in AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini). They rank, but they don't exist. I call this "Ghost Equity." Here is the 6-step playbook to fix it.
The Wallet War of 2026: Google UCP vs. OpenAI ACP (and How to Survive It)
TL;DR: The battle for the "Agentic Economy" has officially begun. Google just launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) to counter OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP). This is a ...
The Generalist Protocol: Why Specialization is a Deprecated Feature in 2026
TL;DR: Society runs on a legacy operating system that treats "broad interests" as a bug. This is a lie from the Industrial Age. In the AI era, hyper-specialization is not a career path; it is a sl...
The "Uncanny Valley" of Text: Why Your AI Copy Smells Like a Robot (And How to Fix It)
TL;DR: Why does ChatGPT write boring copy? Because it is a "Mockingbird," not a Salesman. It defaults to describing What things are (Specs) rather than What things do for you (Feelings). T...