Oura Is Going Public at a $16 Billion Valuation, Built on 42 Billion Hours of Health Data. A Lawsuit Says Its Sleep-Stage Accuracy Is Closer to 50 Percent Than the 95 It Claims. The Company That Actually Dominates Sleep Medicine Never Tried to Replace the Lab.
September 11, 2026 · 4 min read
Scott Galloway's framework for the "Shares of Health Interface" says the moat in health tech is data -- the more of your body a company measures, the harder you are to leave.…
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The Wager and the Decision to Make It
September 11, 2026 · 12 min read
A personal essay on Pascal -- the man, not the borrowed phrase -- found through a programming language before the man, and the man before the wager. On agnosticism, practicing a…
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A 23-Year-Old Product Manager's AI Tool Refuses to Execute His Ideas Until He Explains Why They're Right. In 14 Months, He Says He Gained Three Years of Experience.
September 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Section built a Claude-based coaching tool that gates fast AI execution behind forced reasoning -- the opposite bet of every AI-productivity story about raw speed. Published the…
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The Navy Designed a Semicircular Steel Hut in 1941 So Sailors With No Training Could Build It Anywhere. In 1946, 600 Veterans Showed Up to a Single Sale and Claimed 811 of Them for Housing.
September 10, 2026 · 4 min read
The Quonset hut was engineered in 1941 to solve a wartime shipping-and-assembly problem for the Navy. Nobody redesigned it for civilian use -- the exact same shape and material…
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US Intelligence Agencies Named Six Chinese AI Companies in a Joint Advisory About Stealing US Models. China's Response: American Companies Do the Exact Same Thing.
September 10, 2026 · 4 min read
A joint NSA/CISA/FBI advisory accuses six Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale model distillation. China's Commerce Ministry calls it baseless and hypocritical. Neither…
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A Researcher Who Helped Build GPT-4o Just Quit Anthropic, Warning the Next Two Years Are "Crunch Time for Humanity." Anthropic's Own Alignment Lead Puts the Odds of AI Killing Everyone at Better Than 1 in 10.
September 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic, and Evan Hubinger's own stated odds on AI-caused extinction, aren't outside criticism -- they're the people closest to the problem,…
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A Former Bannon Editor Called AI Data Centers "an Incubator for Algorithmic Immigrants" at a Dallas Debate. A Palantir Co-Founder Called the Backlash Chinese Psyops. Neither Side Won.
September 10, 2026 · 3 min read
At a Dallas policy forum, two figures on the American right argued opposite cases about AI -- one borrowing immigration rhetoric wholesale to describe data centers, the other…
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DeepSeek's Newest AI Data Center Generates Its Own Power and Skips the Grid Entirely. The Median Wait to Connect a New Data Center to the American Grid Is Now Five Years. China Didn't Solve the Chip Shortage. It Made the Chip Shortage Beside the Point.
September 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia now runs 9% of China's national AI computing capacity on data centers that generate and store their own power -- while the median US project waits five…
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The Names in My Head
September 10, 2026 · 15 min read
A personal essay on the names -- Douglass, Washington, Du Bois, Wells, King, Malcolm X, Baldwin, Simone, Coltrane, and a dozen more -- that built one tradition by arguing with…
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The Hiring Decision Is the Filter
September 10, 2026 · 6 min read
Baldwin-mode. The intelligence community, the nuclear industry, Apple, and a small independent mortgage lender all select for something other than raw intelligence. Four…
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How Things Actually Move
September 10, 2026 · 5 min read
Baldwin-mode. Five cases -- Susan B. Anthony, Lois Gibbs, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Rosa Parks against Claudette Colvin, and FDR's own concealed paralysis -- showing that…
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Leaving the Country
September 10, 2026 · 5 min read
Baldwin-mode, first-person. Dozens of trips to France, a broken accent that never fully left me, and one observation I couldn't shake: I was treated better than fluent French…
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No One Has to Lose
September 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Baldwin-mode, first-person. Two songs, uninvited, the same morning. A Catholic childhood and a Baptist one, running at the same time, neither displacing the other. The actual…
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The Drumline
September 10, 2026 · 6 min read
Baldwin-mode, first-person. Florida A&M's Marching 100 is one of the most decorated bands in the country. Robert Champion, one of its own drum majors, was beaten to death by his…
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The Cost of Going Public
September 9, 2026 · 6 min read
Anita Hill, Daniel Ellsberg, and James Baldwin paid a price for telling a truth power wanted left unsaid. Orson Scott Card and J.K. Rowling paid a different one -- and so, in a…
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Rigor, Regardless
September 9, 2026 · 7 min read
LeBron James, Edison, Rockefeller, Einstein, Tesla, and Morgan -- and a saxophone I took four years to get good at, while a friend seemed to get there in two. What actually…
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A Private School 12 Miles From the Capitol Costs $77,100 a Year and Places Students Directly Inside a Sitting Senator's Office. Millions of Families Live Closer to That Same Building and Will Never Get Near It.
September 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Not a story about race. A story about what I bought for my own kids, and what a fifteen-minute drive actually costs everyone else when the destination is power instead of a…
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