Happy new year! I took the last two weeks completely off to focus on health and family. I'm spending the first week of 2026 thinking about one thing: what stays scarce when intelligence becomes abundant. Here's why. We've entered the Era of Asymmetric Impact. The job-apocalypse narrative gets it backwards. AI isn't replacing humans in most knowledge work. It's raising leverage so high that your ability to steer becomes the scarcest resource on Earth. And in the long run, that

Your AI might be brilliant on paper, yet dangerously naïve in reality. Most AI systems don’t truly understand the world; they simply find the easiest shortcuts buried in your data. Consider a real-world case. Researchers set out to train an AI to automatically detect pneumonia from chest X-rays. They fed a deep learning model thousands of images from a specific set of hospitals, and at first, the results looked spectacular. The model showed near-perfect accuracy on X-rays fro

I spent the last week inside the MIT/Oak Ridge "Iceberg Index" study. Not skimming the press release. Reading the actual research. What I found contradicts nearly everything you've heard about AI and jobs. The headlines scream crisis. 11.7% of U.S. wages technically automatable. Mass displacement incoming. But here's what the data actually shows: we're watching the wrong places for the wrong reasons. The Invisible Trillion Everyone is staring at Silicon Valley. The real expo