09 2026 July
InfoWars Is Back, Run by the Team from The Onion
How do you deliver karmic justice to one of the most evil media personalities ever? For the team behind the satirical website The Onion, the...
Read Now01 2026 July
Now You Can Automate Your Automation with Prompt Generators
Anyone who has used AI actively over the past few years knows that the only way to get what you truly want out of an...
Read Now30 2026 June
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Algospeak by Adam Aleksic
As I work on Future Words, I’ve become even more of a student of language, and this book was one of my favorites on the...
Read Now15 2026 June
Can Communal Knowledge Be Automated?
In many countries across Central and West Africa, women known as “mammies” are a fixture at local markets, selling food to families in open air...
Read Now08 2026 June
The Most Powerful Silent Keynote in History
Last month at the Hay Festival, author Sarah Wynn-Williams was invited to keynote and then sat in her chair and didn’t say a word. It wasn’t...
Read Now28 2026 May
Pizza Hut and the Retro Restaurant Movement
For years, the leader in delivery pizza has been Dominos. For sit down pizzerias, there are plenty of options in most cities. Pizza Hut has...
Read Now27 2026 May
Solving The Mass Discard Problem on College Campuses
Imagine a day or series of days when people pile up all sorts of stuff on the curb and give it away for free. Unopened...
Read Now21 2026 May
The Science Is In. AI Is Definitely Making You Dumber, If You Let It
This is a story that will surprise no one who reads my newsletter regularly, but what was surprising to me over the past few weeks...
Read Now19 2026 May
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: China’s 90% Model by Dr. Ram Charan
The long-awaited US-China summit is finally happening after weeks of delay and so it’s a perfect time to bring this book up for you, which is an...
Read Now18 2026 May
The Future of Markups and Margins Will Be Harder to Justify
Inside a new retail concept store called The Markup Marche, the “exotic thirst-defying hydration vessel” is the flowery marketing language used to sell a humble coconut....
Read Now14 2026 May
Everything Looks Cooler with Age
At the recent Met Gala, one of the most non-obvious looks of the night came from rapper Bad Bunny who aged himself 53 years to show up...
Read Now04 2026 May
How AI Analyzing Your Writing Style Might Kill Online Anonymity
When we used to talk about your digital identity, it was the sorts of personal information that are easily quantified like your date of birth...
Read Now30 2026 April
What We Can Learn from the Complex Legacy of Tim Cook
One of the biggest tech stories this month was related to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s decision to step down after 15 years leading Apple into...
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