AI’s Productivity Puzzle
Does AI improve productivity or create more work? Explore the evidence on gains, errors, rework, employee workloads and the wider economic payoff.
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Innovation
Exploring advancements in technology, policy, finance, and business strategy that drive economic transformation and competitive advantage.
Who Gets Paid When Insurance Gets Smarter?
As AI makes insurance cheaper to arrange and operate, value can move across the chain - toward customers, platforms, specialists, carriers or new intermediaries. Who gets paid depends on competition, bargaining power and the commitments each participant can still defend.
Do You REALLY Need AI?
Companies are rushing to attach AI to every messy data problem. Sometimes that is exactly the right move. Often, the business first needs cleaner definitions, better rules, and systems that can answer the same question the same way every time.
A Humbling Experience
This piece was not supposed to be about AI
I was reading through the recent news and geopolitical shocks and got curious to understand Iran’s history a bit better. Persia was once one of Greece’s fiercest opponents, at times an actual existential threat, and that is part of
Canon by Design
How AI turns dominant moral canons into “neutrality” — and what my argument with a model revealed about its architecture
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* 🧠 I challenged an AI on an ethical inconsistency: humans get “save lives” (vaccines), animals get “kill lives” (culling).
* ⚖️ The model drifted from my moral question (“is human
Markets Are Efficient, Information Is Perfect, and AI Will Turbocharge Profitability
Or not.
For decades, the comforting story went like this:
markets are efficient, information is rapidly reflected in prices, and any remaining frictions will be shaved away by technology.
In that story, AI is the final boss of efficiency.
It reads faster than any analyst, digests more documents than any
The Game Everyone Bought
A modern fable about imitation and belief. When a student’s app takes over a school, it reveals how innovation, fear, and belonging fuel rational bubbles.
Breaking the Austerity Taboo: Innovative Defense Financing Through Military Bonds
As Europe faces increasing geopolitical instability, particularly with the threat from Russia, it must confront a major structural challenge: its reluctance to finance defense through debt. The same rigid fiscal policies that prolonged economic stagnation after the Eurozone crisis now hinder Europe’s ability to build a strong, independent defense