Notes from the build.

Today's educational systems are fundamentally designed for an economy that no longer exists.

Government budgets across the developed world are structurally dependent on labor. In the US and UK, for example, income tax and payroll taxes account for the vast majority of government revenue.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are pouring into AI infrastructure, model training, and deployment at a pace that rivals the most frenzied investment booms in modern history.

Ukraine's recent coordinated drone strikes against Russian infrastructure demonstrated capabilities that military analysts are calling "Agentic AI"—autonomous systems coordinating complex operations…

Every significant leap in AI capability demands exponentially more energy.

Knowledge work once meant creation: writing documents, building spreadsheets, designing presentations, coding software.

Corporate hierarchies rest on an assumption: leadership requires uniquely human judgment that justifies premium compensation.

Silicon Valley's most powerful leaders are making extraordinary claims.

Unemployment statistics tell only part of the story. When AI displaces workers, it doesn't just eliminate paychecks—it erases identities.

For decades, the prevailing wisdom pushed children away from physical labor and toward desk jobs. Parents urged their kids to "learn to code" and avoid the perceived dead-end of manual trades.