NOTE 012
The AI Boom Is Tying Balance Sheets Together
Watching The Big Short led me to examine the financial ties behind the AI boom, how losses could spread, and what the government might choose to save.
Personal writing/Marcelo Zapata
Personal writing.
Thoughts, observations, and things I’m working through.
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NOTE 011
All In, Every Time
Giving the work everything I have, changing how I build with AI, and knowing what I will not compromise.
NOTE 010
The Chat Box Is Only the Top Floor
Your chatbot has a supply chain. A solarpunk look at the models, chips, factories, data centers, resources, and partnerships behind the chat box.
OpenAI partnership announcements: AMD, Oracle, and Amazon.
NOTE 009
AI Is an Addictive Product on a Subscription
A Day 3 note on AI dependency, corporate cost, portability, and why the work should not depend on one vendor meter.
NOTE 008
I Had a Dream
A calm experiment in letting AI agents carry repeatable execution while a human holds the vision, judgment, and life around the work.
NOTE 007
The Job Was Not the Dream
The job you are waiting for is not the only way to build a life. A note to the next generation about access, identity, and building more than one path to a living.
NOTE 006
My Big Bet
AI does not become useful just because people can access it. They need the education, creativity, and judgment to connect it to real work and life.
NOTE 005
Fourteen
Nobody hired a thousand people because the work needed a thousand people. Headcount was a measurement of friction. That is the thing collapsing.
NOTE 004
Coding Beats
A public study of rhythm written as code: patterns, motion, and measured sound.
MaloSound
NOTE 003
You Are Not a Runner
A note on the sentences that stop us learning something, and why experience outside our heads can change them.
Jacques Hadamard, An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, 1945.
NOTE 002
The Trap of Time
A useful label can become a room you stop trying to leave. A note on time, identity, and using AI to test your limits.
Up, dir. Pete Docter, Pixar, 2009.
NOTE 001
The Only Thing Paying Attention
The Axiom passengers were not lazy. They stopped looking up. A note on comfort, agency, and curiosity as an exit.
WALL-E, dir. Andrew Stanton, Pixar, 2008.