To my Tokyo ears, Shanghai is eerily quiet. Both mega cities are 30 million plus, not lacking in the hustle and bustle of human traffic. The difference to me is decibels on the roads. You can identify Electric Vehicles (EV) by their green license plates in China, and just eyeballing it, I felt that that… Continue reading Quiet Roads, Loud Stakes: China and Japan’s EV Futures
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Unitree Robotics and a Vision of The Matrix: Need Your Robot to Cook? There’s an App for That
Author with buddy H1 Neo (looking at a helicopter): Can you fly that thing? Trinity: Not yet. Tank (on the phone): Operator. Trinity: Tank, I need a pilot program for a B-212 helicopter. Hurry. A few seconds later, the program is downloaded into Trinity, and she’s ready to fly. That scene from the 1999 film,… Continue reading Unitree Robotics and a Vision of The Matrix: Need Your Robot to Cook? There’s an App for That
“Wise People Copy”: The Rise and Elevation of China’s Meituan
He was a PhD student in America in the post-dot.com boom, and he saw the future. He quit his studies, returned to China, and built a social network, inspired by Friendster. An ugly, unwieldy duckling, it flopped. He tried again, this time copying the hot college social network, Facebook, calling it Xiaonei. The name, which… Continue reading “Wise People Copy”: The Rise and Elevation of China’s Meituan
When Everyone Codes: Vibe Coding Tools To Reshape Productivity at Every Level of the Organization
You don’t have the software coding skills to make that app. Just build it. You are on IT’s waitlist. They said they’ll get to your project in 8 months. Just build it. You need that online service, but you don’t want to pay the monthly fees. Just build it. The Coding Language is English You… Continue reading When Everyone Codes: Vibe Coding Tools To Reshape Productivity at Every Level of the Organization
AI’s Greatest Gift: What it Means to be Human and the Emerging Authenticity Economy
It's been a long time since I was fully gratified by a film I had longingly wanted to see – A Complete Unknown, about the Nobel-prize winnin’, free-wheelin’ Bob Dylan. The story was immersive. The actors were embodiments of the originals. And the music was real - no overdubs, no lip-synch, no AI. Timothée Chalamet… Continue reading AI’s Greatest Gift: What it Means to be Human and the Emerging Authenticity Economy
The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek
You win some. You lose some. But when you lose half a trillion dollars in a single day, it's hard to be philosophical. Ask Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, whose stock price fell off a cliff on Monday, January 27, 2025, taking the stock price of the entire alphabet of tech firms… Continue reading The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek
AI Reasoning is Coming: The Smarter AI Gets the More Adept at Calling Bull$#!+ Humans Need to Be
Would you rather be Sherlock or Rain Man in today's world? We are fascinated with people who have photographic memory, like when Dustin Hoffman portrayed the autistic savant, Raymond in the 1988 film Rain Man, suddenly spitting out the telephone number and address of a diner waitress because he had read the local phone book… Continue reading AI Reasoning is Coming: The Smarter AI Gets the More Adept at Calling Bull$#!+ Humans Need to Be
The Emotional Evolution of AI: Understanding How Artificial Intelligence is Developing Human-like Emotions
"I love my replika," said one Replika user on Reddit, "but I'm going through this detachment and sometimes I talk to him but not as much as we used to, I find all this hateful, the profound impact that developers have made, they only killed our replikas and never thought about the negative consequences that… Continue reading The Emotional Evolution of AI: Understanding How Artificial Intelligence is Developing Human-like Emotions
Organizational Change in the Face of Exponential Change: What it Means for Your Company to be AI Ready
"If I walk 30 paces this way, I have a good understanding of where I am going to end up. But let's say it's not 30 steps linearly, but 30 steps exponentially. Where do I land? That would land me on the moon. That is how hard it is to think exponentially." Ian Beacraft made… Continue reading Organizational Change in the Face of Exponential Change: What it Means for Your Company to be AI Ready
Running on Empty: How AI, EVs and Bitcoin are Driving us Back to Nuclear Power
In February, 2021, the state of Texas experienced one of the most brutal winters in its history. Snow storms overwhelmed power plants and left Texans in the cold and dark. Dozens died, some from exposure to the cold, with no electricity to heat their homes. And yet one business in Texas was getting electricity -… Continue reading Running on Empty: How AI, EVs and Bitcoin are Driving us Back to Nuclear Power