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Latest Essays
Correction vs Bear Market: How Should Investors Respond?
Is this a market correction or the beginning of a bear market? A look at today’s market through the lessons of the dot-com crash, 2008, and COVID.
Preparing for the Next Stock Market Crash
An investment newsletter from Inside Edge Capital landed in my inbox recently with a statistic that made me stop: over roughly the past twenty-three years,
Replacing Every Professional with AI
Replacing every professional with AI isn’t happening overnight, but artificial intelligence is already changing how expertise is created, valued, and delivered.
AI First, Doctor Second
AI First, Doctor Second explores how artificial intelligence is becoming the first source of medical advice while redefining the physician’s role as advisor, validator, and decision-maker.
Technology changes faster than institutions adapt.
The gap between the two defines our era.
MAXSIGMA
Areas of Exploration
Leadership
Exploring the incentives that drive behavior in business, investing, politics, and everyday life.
Institutions
How governments, corporations, media and other institutions gain, maintain and sometimes lose legitimacy.
Reflections
Questions of purpose, leadership, values, achievement, and what it means to build a life worth living.
Technology
The ways technology reshapes economies, communication, decision-making, and society itself.
More Recent Essays
Power, Restraint, and the Department of War
Should the Department of Defense become the Department of War again? The debate isn’t really about military capability. It’s about how nations project power—and why restraint is often a greater source of strength than rhetoric.
Power, Markets, and Presidential Insider Advantage
In financial markets, timing and information is everything. And the President of the United States sits at the center of all of it. A regulatory
Leaving a Country in Rubble
There was a time when we believed—perhaps naively—that the era of wars ending in cities reduced to rubble was behind us. When the goal is
When Power Speaks in Extremes
There are moments when a single sentence reveals more about leadership than any formal policy or speech ever could. Recently, Donald Trump wrote, “A whole civilization
SOCIETY
The Collapse of Common Ground
Why our public conversations have deteriorated—and how we might rebuild them
8 min read
TECHNOLOGY
Work in the Age of Intelligence
AI will not just automate tasks. It will reorganize the meaning of work itself.
10 min read
LEADERSHIP
The Burden of High Responsibility
Power is not the freedom to act. It is the obligation to consider every
9 min read
FUTURE
Beyond Growth: A New Metric
GDP cannot measure what matters most. It is time for a new scorecard for civilization.
11 min read
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