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Essays onwhat comes next.
Written by Kristian Kabashi, founder of The Blank Collar. The thinking, in long form, on trust, company memory, the shape of the AI-native company, and what is left for humans. Published in the open on Medium.
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A dark age of ability.
Rome kept the concrete recipe and lost the builders. AI could do the same to us. By Kristian Kabashi Everybody worries about the day AI gets too good. I worry about a different day…
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Your Office Has a Steering Wheel
A field guide to the car as the place where the work gets done. By Kristian Kabashi The commute used to be dead time. It is turning into the best working hour of the day. This week…
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Cambridge Analytica was the rehearsal
The scandal that ended a company touched 87 million profiles. The sequel is a billion people a week, and it is being written right now. By Kristian Kabashi We burned a company over…
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When the bubble pops, what do you actually own?
What a bursting AI bubble would do to your company, and what survives it. By Kristian Kabashi The tide always goes out. What it leaves behind is the whole game. Here is the deal th…
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AI Grew a Mind’s Workspace on Its Own. The Chair Is Still Empty.
“The machine grew a mind. The chair is still empty,” by Kristian Kabashi. Give a machine a test built to make it misbehave, then read what it thinks before it speaks. Anthropic ran…
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Stop Prompting. Start Looping.
Prompt engineering was last year’s skill. The people getting the most out of AI now barely prompt. They build loops. Here is the whole idea, from beginner to pro, and how to run yo…
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Human Capital, Meet Token Capital
Every company is about to be in the business of building two kinds of capital. The surprising part is that the cheaper machine intelligence gets, the more your people are worth, no…
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SpaceX Didn’t Buy a Code Editor
It paid $60 billion for the front door to an AI-first ecosystem, the kind that could one day rival Apple, and maybe end with a phone that has no apps at all. By Kristian Kabashi Sp…
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