2031 — Part 4: The Number
Apr 06, 2026 · 6 min read
Kai runs an audit tool. The number comes back: $340/day in extraction. $124,000 over a working lifetime. Nothing illegal happened. That's the problem.
Posts tagged: economics
The Economics of P: Who Gets Paid What When D Gets Cheaper?
Mar 31, 2026 · 17 min read
When AI automates the deterministic layer, the market for D skills reprices fast. What's less obvious is what happens to P — why the premium is real, why it has a ceiling D never had, and what the labor market looks like when both are true.
2031 — Part 3: Wanting Things
Mar 30, 2026 · 6 min read
A year in. Kai's agent has been surfacing the same laptop for weeks. The preference feels personal. But who actually formed it? The emergence of Agent Engine Optimization (AEO).
2031 — Part 2: The Drift
Mar 22, 2026 · 5 min read
Six months in, Kai's agent has a personality now. Then a restaurant gets recommended to two people with different agents. Probably just popular. These things happen.
2031 — Part 1: Everything Works
Mar 17, 2026 · 5 min read
A morning in 2031. Kai's agent handles everything — groceries, commute, dentist, insurance. It all feels like magic. They saved $43. They don't know what wasn't saved.
Building Gets Easy. Selling Gets Brutal.
Mar 15, 2026 · 8 min read
AI is collapsing the cost of building digital products. That's not the story. The story is what happens to selling when everyone can build — and why the platforms always win when supply explodes.
The Speed Drug: What a 19th-Century Economist Tells Us About Throttling AI's Most Productive Users
Mar 11, 2026 · 10 min read
Every time we've made a productive tool more efficient, we used more of it, not less. AI is no different — except this time the tool is augmenting thinking itself. That changes what happens when you restrict it, and what happens even when you don't.
The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer
Mar 10, 2026 · 9 min read
Every decade, technology makes us dramatically more productive. Every decade, GDP growth slows. These two facts should not coexist — and understanding why they do reveals the defining economic tension of our era.