From the Spine of Korea to the Spine of the Earth.

The People Building This Are Also Scared of It

Dario Amodei left OpenAI because he didn't trust them. Now he's running the most powerful AI lab in the world — and he's not sure anyone should trust him either. Dario Amodei grew up in San Francisco while the first internet revolution was happening around

Competition Is for Losers

Peter Thiel's most provocative idea — and why it's probably right. The airline industry has generated approximately zero cumulative profit in its entire 100-year history. Google, a fraction of its size by revenue, is worth four times as much. That gap is the whole lesson. Creating

The War Nobody Saw Coming Was Predicted a Year Ago

Palantir's CEO said it in August 2024. Nobody listened. Then it happened. In August 2024, Palantir CEO Alex Karp gave an interview to the New York Times. He described simultaneous pressure on three fronts — Russia, China, Iran — and argued that America's real vulnerability wasn't

Why Jensen Huang Has 60 Direct Reports and No One-on-Ones

The org chart isn't bureaucracy. It's architecture. And most companies get it wrong. Jensen Huang has more than 60 direct reports. He doesn't do one-on-ones with any of them. Most people hear this and assume it's chaos. It's

The Best Investor You've Never Heard Of Admits He's Been Chickening Out

Stan Druckenmiller: 30% annualized returns for 30 years. No losing years. His edge isn't what you think. Stan Druckenmiller ran Duquesne Capital from 1981 to 2010. Thirty percent annualized returns. Zero losing years. When asked what his advantage is, he doesn't say intelligence. He says trigger-

The Best Investors Dream Less Than the Founders They Back

Doug Leone's biggest mistake at Sequoia: not believing enough. Doug Leone was an early investor in Nvidia, Google, and Apple. In each case, the company became something far beyond what anyone at Sequoia imagined. That's not a success story — it's a confession. His biggest

The Man Running the World's Biggest Bank Isn't Panicking. But He's Not Relaxed Either.

Jamie Dimon's read: more geopolitical risk than since World War II. America's real threat is softer than that. Jamie Dimon runs JPMorgan Chase. He talks to more CEOs, governments, and central banks than almost anyone alive. His assessment of the current moment: more geopolitical risk than

Working Harder Is Not the Answer. It Might Be the Problem.

A psychiatrist's uncomfortable observation: the people who struggle most are often the ones trying hardest. Dr. K works with everyone from burned-out professionals to billionaires. His observation: the difference between them is rarely how hard they work. The degenerate gamer grinding 12-hour sessions is often expending

The Wisest Investor Alive Says He Doesn't Know What Comes Next

Howard Marks has survived every financial crisis since 1969. His most honest admission: this time, nobody does. Howard Marks started at Citibank in 1969. He's been through the Nifty 50 crash, the savings and loan crisis, the dot-com collapse, 2008, COVID. He's seen more financial

Every Generation Thought They Were the Last One With Real Jobs

The fear isn't new. The speed is. Vlad Tenev's great-grandfather was a Bulgarian farmer. The first car he ever saw, he ran back to his village and called it a dragon. His son farmed too. His grandson became a professor of tourism — a job the

We Left the Field. They Didn't.

Jensen Huang's warning isn't about chips. It's about what happens when you concede a market and call it strategy. Nvidia is banned from selling to China. China has also banned Nvidia from entering. Huang's joke: they're the first company in

Your Company Is Already an Intelligence. It Just Doesn't Know It Yet.

Jack Dorsey cut 40% of Block in three weeks. Not costs. Structure. The question he asked his team after the holidays was simple and devastating: if you were building this company today, with these tools, would it look like this? Unanimous answer: no. Not the size, not the layers, not