09·122026
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The Empty Quadrant
Eric S. Raymond's carpentry parable treats AI as a tool you learn to use. In chess, the human-plus-machine edge was real, and it expired.
03·042026
Daniel's Deposit: When Your Savings Strategy Doesn't Match Your Timeline
A couple in Brisbane holding Bitcoin with a baby on the way face the question defining a generation of Australian savers: when your asset falls 47% and property prices keep rising, can you afford to wait?
FINANCE · BITCOIN · AUSTRALIA · PROPERTY · CRYPTO · STRATEGY
02·202026
The Unintended Consequences of a Lying Machine
In 44 BC, Rome's most devoted republicans stabbed Caesar to stop a monarchy and got an empire. In 1902, French administrators in Hanoi offered a penny per rat tail and got rat farms. Both disasters share a cause. So does the way we are building AI.
02·122026
12·302025
The Surfer and the Wave
A pragmatic essay on why adaptive mindset, not raw genius, will determine who thrives through AI-era disruption.