We are witnessing an extraordinary battle between the light and the dark. Books are being beheaded by guillotine so that LLMs can learn faster. Ink is being replaced by light and pixels. This changes the human condition and constitutes a humanitarian crisis. By killing the books, we implicitly confirm that we believe it’s smart to trade serendipity for predictability. But the best things in human life, like love, breakthroughs, deep friendships, and artistic discoveries, are almost never planned. Read more about the role of books in an AI world here.

The world has been obsessed with the FIFA World Cup. It's a doorway into a larger question about how we align ourselves. We used to rely on firms and states to align us into groups and teams. Now AI is empowering the solopreneur and causing a leap in S Corp registrations. Here I draw upon Coase (1937), Barnard (1938), Drucker (1950s), Malmgren (1961), and Karp (2026). Find out why friction now beats fiction.

(Continued from Intelligent Money: Inflation, Marks & Spencer, and Time). A human-centered economy is now unfolding thanks to technology and AI. But instead of shining the spotlight on corporations, we must now learn to shine it on humans.