Disclosure: This reflects my personal experience and interpretation of publicly available information. It represents my views alone—not any employer or organization—and is not professional advice. Editor's note: This is V2 of the essay, originally published on April 10, 2026, the night of the Artemis II splashdown.
The content industry is broken. Not in one place. In four. The pipeline that feeds it. The franchises it relies on. The contract between platform and consumer. And the infrastructure that delivers the stream. If you work in media, entertainment, or technology, this series lays out what's structurally
Abstract: This essay is part of a series on why the content industry is broken and what would fix it. The Well We Never Tapped examined the starvation of the content pipeline. The Heat Death of Your Sci-Fi Universe examined the strip-mining of major franchises. The New Contract and The
Abstract: This essay is part of a series on why the content industry is broken and what would fix it. The Well We Never Tapped examined the starvation of the content pipeline. The Heat Death of Your Sci-Fi Universe examined the strip-mining of major franchises. The New Contract and The
Abstract: This essay is part of a series on why the content industry is broken and what would fix it. The Well We Never Tapped examined the starvation of the content pipeline. The Heat Death of Your Sci-Fi Universe examined the strip-mining of major franchises. The New Contract and The
The restaurants still have different names. The shelves still have different labels. But the supply chains, payment networks, servers, and energy infrastructure beneath are converging into fewer and fewer hands. More choice. Less difference. And a system that needs you to consume but doesn't need you to choose.
Abstract: This essay is part of a series on why the content industry is broken and what would fix it. The Well We Never Tapped examined the starvation of the content pipeline. The Heat Death of Your Sci-Fi Universe examined the strip-mining of major franchises. The New Contract and The
People didn’t stop reading. We removed the need to. And now everyone—from Gen Z to retirees—is converging on the same behavior: they don’t want content. They want answers. Disclosure: This reflects my personal experience and interpretation of publicly available information. It represents my views alone—not
Disclosure: This reflects my personal experience and interpretation of publicly available information. It represents my views alone—not any employer or organization—and is not professional advice. Everyone is acting like AI just kicked off a brand new era of job displacement. It didn't. We've been
Context Windows, Tool Stability, and the Economics of Continuous Execution Disclosure: This post reflects independent personal experimentation using publicly available documentation and pricing. All model recommendations are based on my own hands-on testing with OpenClaw in the context of agentic skill development — not general benchmarking or sponsored evaluation. It reflects
This is not about crime, or safety, or "the locals." Everyone I met — every bartender, every vendor, every guide, every family — was warm, professional, and often openly frustrated by the same dynamics I was documenting. The people of Jamaica are not the problem. The people of Jamaica are
This is not an anti-all-inclusive essay. I have already bought into the model, and in Mexico, the surrounding ecosystem still works. The resort captures spending, but the destination still circulates it. What I found in Jamaica is a system so frictionless inside the resort gates and so hostile outside them