Th Four Stages of Offices Grief, finally reaching Acceptance.
WSJ: “Landlords and their lenders held on to their office towers for years, hoping for a turnaround after Covid. Now, they are accepting enormous losses.“
The most productive technologies affect the output of the fewest people.
Who could have seen this coming…
The bad news: The economy is a lottery
The good news: Tickets have never been cheaper
"There is a surge in software job postsing"
The surge:
It’s easier to imagine the future than to believe it once it arrives.
AI isn’t replacing anyone yet. It’s revealing who hasn’t been necessary for a while.
Don’t worry about jobs. Worry about income distribution.
Naturally…
During World War 2, the British secret service employed an astrologer to publish horoscopes that would upset Hitler.
Two years ago, my editor wouldn't let me say it. Now, everyone is feeling it.
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It’s becoming impossible to ignore. The “jobless boom” has been visible for more than two years now. But people didn’t want to believe it.
Maduro: Am I finished?
Claude: You’re absolutely right!
They told you AI would hit a wall. They didn’t tell you it’ll be your office wall.
Bloomberg: Real estate services companies stocks sink “as investors decided they’re next on the AI hit parade as a new crop of applications and tools threatens to disrupt several industries.”
Meta is spending $135 billion on computing infrastructure. That's roughly the cost of rebuilding every single office tower in Midtown Manhattan. In one year.
Ford CEO: "So far, only 10% of our operations can be roboticized; with humanoid robots, maybe it’s 20%. But it’s not going to be 80%."
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"The Trumps have generated about $1.4 billion from crypto projects that are new to his second term, a Bloomberg analysis shows."
Em dashes are a sign of intelligence — artificial or otherwise.
Prediction markets are a conspiracy to make young people read the news.
Technology doesn't replicate human work. It repackages it.
Who will get canned in 2026?
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“There were in total 1.17 million job cuts through 2025, the highest level since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020”
As I said at the time: Open source AI models like DeepSeek are a bigger threat to China than they are to America.
Publicly, the Chinese government celebrates them. But privately, it is scrambling to plug a hole that cannot be plugged. Lines of code always find their way out.
We’re all degenerates now.
“Opposition to data centers is accelerating. In Q2 2025 alone, an estimated $98 billion in projects were blocked or delayed, more than the total for all previous quarters since 2023.”
www.datacenterwatch.org/q22025
"In the 1980s, almost 75% of thirtysomething New Yorkers earning the equivalent of $100,000 in today’s money owned their own home. Today that figure is less than 50%... it should come as no surprise to see young people holding the strongest zero-sum attitudes..."
Innovation, markets, politics, show business, and some classic literature. Here are the books I enjoyed most in 2025.
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Your chatbot isn’t creative enough? Give it some drugs!
A new marketplace sells lines of code that can be added to your preferred AI tool to simulate the influence of popular substances
Money never sleeps, why should you?
This will advantage professional traders, and help push amateur ones towards automated trading tools.
The hottest job in America: Storyteller.
The percentage of LinkedIn job postings in the U.S. that include the term “storyteller” doubled in 2025. Meanwhile, corporate earnings calls and investor-day mentions of "storyteller" and "storytelling" are up 30% from 2024 and 220% from 2015.