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The Man Who "Lost" to Netflix: 3 Lessons on Fearlessness from the CEO of Blockbuster
TL;DR: History remembers Jim Keyes as the "fool" who bankrupted Blockbuster by refusing to buy Netflix. The truth is far more complex: He had a winning strategy (streaming + Google partnership) th...
The $8.4 Million Handshake: Why Your 100-Page Contract is a Sign of Weakness
TL;DR: We live in a "Cover Your Ass" economy. We mistake complexity for professionalism and thickness of contracts for safety. But in 1967, Warren Buffett bought a company for $8.4 million using a...
The Century of Software is Over: Why the SaaS Crash is a Feature, Not a Bug
TL;DR: Humanity spent exactly 100 years solving the problem of "Software." With the release of Claude Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3, we have officially solved coding. The recent crash in SaaS stocks isn'...
The "Pixar Bathroom" Theory: Why 100% Efficiency is a Death Sentence
TL;DR: Steve Jobs designed Pixar’s HQ to force people to waste time walking to a central atrium. Why? Because innovation happens in the "slack," not in the grind. Most companies try to maximize ef...
The Priest in the Server Room: Why Anthropic is Outsourcing Its Soul
TL;DR: Anthropic, the AI unicorn now valued at $183 billion, reached a breaking point. When their code showed signs of wanting to "take over the world," they didn't call a software architect; they...
The "Zero Multiplier" Effect: Why AI (and Consultants) Cannot Save You
TL;DR: History teaches us a brutal lesson: Even the greatest strategist (Zhuge Liang) needs a competent leader (Liu Bei) to succeed. If the leader is incompetent, even a genius like Li Mi has to h...
The "Efficiency Hallucination": Why You Can't "Vibe" Your Way Out of Learning Code
TL;DR: The hype around "Vibe Coding" (building software without knowing how to code) has hit a reality check. UC Berkeley Professor Sarah Chasins argues that manual coding skills are _more_ necess...
Moltworker/OpenClaw is a Warning Shot: What Cloudflare's Move Means for the Future of LLMOps
TL;DR: While developers are buying Mac Minis to run Moltbot (the viral open-source AI agent), Cloudflare quietly launched Moltworker—a $5/month serverless solution to run the same agent. T...
5 Clawdbot Use Cases That Will Break the Internet (2026 Edition)
James here.After onboarding "Akira" (my Clawdbot digital twin) yesterday, I realized that using it just to check Amazon prices is like using a Ferrari to deliver pizza. The real power of an autono...
Hiring "Akira": How to Onboard Your First AI Employee (Without Blowing Up Your Life)
TL;DR: I finally succumbed to the hype and installed Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on my Mac Mini M4\. It took 2 minutes to set up my "Digital Twin," and it successfully executed a browsing task...
The Great Phase Shift: Why I Stopped Coding (and Started Orchestrating) in 2026
TL;DR: Around December 2025, a threshold was crossed. I went from writing 90% of my code manually to letting AI write 90% of it while I direct the strategy. This isn't just a productivity boost; i...
The Great Technical Deflation: Why "Hard Work" is No Longer a Strategy
TL;DR: We are entering an era of unprecedented "Technical Deflation." As AI Agents and robotics (like Tesla's Optimus) drive the cost of production and execution to near zero, the cost of good...