What Export Controls Actually Accelerated

The policy designed to constrain China's AI capability may be accelerating the form of efficiency that matters most.

2026-03-29 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 7 min read

What 10 Million Documents Will Teach You the Hard Way

10 principles that seem optional at 10,000 documents and become mandatory at 10 million.

2026-03-29 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 10 min read

We May Be Scaling the Wrong Layer of AI

The market sees one kind of efficiency coming. There are two and they don't arrive on the same timeline.

2026-03-25 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 5 min read

Move Up the Stack

The cost of writing software is collapsing.

2026-03-22 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 6 min read

The Calibration Gap: Why Smart People Still Make Terrible Decisions

Judgment isn't an IQ test. It's an engineering problem, and most people never build the system.

2026-03-12 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 7 min read

Kill the Ego or You Will Misuse the Machine

The silent threshold most people still refuse to acknowledge

2026-03-03 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 7 min read

Apple Would Never Ship This

So Why Are They Allowing It Through Updates?

2026-02-28 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 4 min read

Cheap Compute Is the New Cheap Ride

Token prices are falling. The gravity behind the fall is not what you think.

2026-02-20 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 5 min read

The Bug Fix Is No Longer the Point

How AI turns forgotten backlogs into product leverage and long-tail growth

2026-02-04 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 4 min read