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A rabbit is nice. A lion can choose to be kind.
AI is the illusion I fell for headfirst — and the one I'm grateful I invested in deeply enough to see clearly. It can be a tremendous force multiplier. It is not magic. And if you think it's going to fix your problems, this is meant to wake you up.
When the excitement wears off, the strength remains.
You are running your life on software you installed a decade ago.
You keep watering what you should be pulling.
Balance is the lie that keeps you mediocre at everything.
Every leap in human history started with trusting something that could kill you.
We've been building a persistent AI partner for over a year. Most of what we've shipped is code. Most of what we've spent money on is inference. The ratio has been wrong. This is the question that flips it.
One of my clients owns a trades company doing around ten million a year. He's been wrestling for months with whether to promote it publicly. He knows he should. He can't quite make himself do it. Yesterday the question flipped.
The goal is not to win the game, but to play the right one.
The goal is not to die wealthy. It is to die fulfilled.
The far-out hypothesis that is uncomfortably close to home
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