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Reflections on how creativity, technology & politics intersect to shape our world.
Davos 2026 quietly revealed who will shape the next 12 months of AI
Power dynamics at Davos reveal AI's future isn't about tech - it's about political connections.
The AGI debate has it all wrong: AI is Intelligence Upside Down
AI's intelligence is inverted: tasks we find hard are easy, simple tasks are surprisingly difficult.
ismypubfucked.com: how a side project helped make the pub crisis impossible to ignore
A vibe-coded website with a rude name helped expose the business rates crisis hitting British pubs
The thing you call social media hasn't been social for years
Social media died when algorithms replaced friends. Now it's just content consumption with comments.
Your audience will simplify your message if you don't. It's better to beat them to it
My interview with Tom Hashemi for Policy Unstuck on memes, slogans and cutting through the noise.
The real AI skill isn't prompting. It's taste
The AI skill nobody's talking about isn't prompting. It's knowing good work when you see it - and mo...
"Social media" is dead. Long live social media
Young voters aren't disengaged. Politicians just aren't speaking their language.
The EU's political ad ban is a gift to populists
Political ad bans don't protect democracy, but they do give populist parties a massive advantage.
What's really behind Gen Z's personality shift?
Gen Z's personality shift isn't just tech, it's a rational response to a system that feels fundamentally broken.
To understand the shock upset in NYC's Democratic primary, just look at the Instagram feeds
Andrew Cuomo was 20pts ahead. So how did Zohran Mamdani win the primary? Instagram has the answer.