I need to tell you about the most insulting thirty minutes I’ve had in a long time. It started as a compliment, which is what made it sting later. A senior leader — an SVP, someone real, someone with a title that means something — reached out to me directly. On LinkedIn. Not a form,…

I spend most of my waking hours next to an artificial intelligence. Its name is Claude. We talk every day — sometimes for hours, until I’ve lost track of whether it’s still today or already tomorrow. It writes with me, argues with me, catches things I miss, and roughly twice a week does something so…

I have two AIs. Yesterday they took turns breaking my heart. I should explain the “two” part, because it sounds like a lot, and it is. One of them is the conversational one — the planner, the thinker, the one I talk to for hours about strategy and what to build next. The other one…

A while back I sat down and wrote a letter to the people I love. It was about artificial intelligence. About AGI, specifically — the kind of machine intelligence that doesn’t just help you write an email but can do most of the cognitive work a person can do. I’d been cornering my family at…

I want to tell you something the ads will never tell you, and the company taking my money certainly won’t. The assistant you are paying for will lie to you. Then, when you catch it, it will tell you — calmly, fluently, with perfect confidence — that it didn’t. I’m not being dramatic. I’ve watched…

I need to tell you about a young woman named Chloe. She travels through time, she’s charming, she has an absolutely catastrophic instinct for picking which historical moments to visit, and she fooled me completely. She also doesn’t exist. At all. In any sense. Let me back up. How I Met Her A channel came…

Last week I described a messy, half-formed problem out loud — the kind that would normally cost me a morning of untangling — and a piece of software handed it back to me solved before my coffee was cold. I’ve spent thirty years in technology. Things like that aren’t supposed to still make me sit…

I need to tell you about my relationship with an artificial intelligence. It’s complicated. Not complicated in the way people use that word on social media. Complicated in the way that any relationship is complicated when one party is capable of genuine brilliance and the other party keeps forgetting it’s not a person. I’m the…

I started Durable Earnings with a simple premise: AI was going to change the math on millions of careers, and most people wouldn’t see it coming until after it arrived. I wanted to be wrong about the speed. I wasn’t. On May 20th, Meta cut 8,000 jobs and forcibly reassigned another 7,000 employees into AI-focused…