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A collection of 17 issues

Is Seeing Actually Believing?

I came across a news article recently that mentioned a partnership between Google and Range Media Partners to jointly produce content/movies. The partnership, 100 Zeroes, will focus on making microdrama content. Range Media Partners – founded by a group of big-time talent management agents – brings artists and connections to

Anthropic's New Public Benefit Fund

Quick note before we jump into things here. I'll be going into the body shop for a total shoulder replacement on November 6th, which will take me out of commission for a while. So, Godspeed will be missing from your inbox for a few weeks, at which point

Math, AI, and the Meaning of Being Human

I had another post in the can for today – head's up: it’s about Google – and then I listened to The Daily podcast from the New York Times this morning and feel compelled to share it. Nominally, it’s about mathematics and AI. Fundamentally, it’s about the

Colorado Invents the A-Corp (Elon, Pay No Heed)

Godspeed: good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.) It had to be coming. In the world of corporate governance, there’s a C Corp, and, as readers of this newsletter most certainly know, there’s a B Corp. We’

The Odd Couple Nobody Saw Coming: Main Street and Wall Street on AI's Payday

Some days the universe sprinkles cosmic content dust right in your lap. Moments after I hit “publish” on last week’s post about democratizing the economic spoils of AI via a sovereign wealth fund, Just Capital released new polling research on how the public, investors, and corporate leaders think AI-

From Bernie to Trump: Is A Consensus Building Around Taxing AI Companies?

Did your capitalist eyeballs about bug out of your head earlier this month when Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the creation of a Sovereign Wealth Fund to be funded by a tax on the leading AI companies? Bernie’s move comes as politicians have suddenly (hello!) awakened to the negative economic

A 1% Solution: Khan You Dig It?

I’ve been writing for nearly two years now on the rapacious advance of A.I. and what I believe will be a blitzkrieg that overwhelms the job market. I recently came across an opinion piece by Sal Khan that I thought made a lot of sense as one potential

AI Breaks It, AI Buys It

Four Ways to Make Technology Pay for Job Displacement In my last post (From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement) I raised the specter of AI creating massive job loss. So, how do we pay for job retraining or even the hallelujah state promised by AI CEOs of finding our bliss

From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement: Will We Need Another New Deal?

Reader and Godspeed supporter Emma Mattson engaged me recently in a conversation about purpose at work, pointing me to an old episode of The Ezra Klein Show. (The Case Against Loving Your Job, aired in 2021, worth the listen, and deeply influencing Emma’s view on the subject.) I listened,

Radical Abundance

This is the second in a three-part series focusing on the radical ideas that are surfacing among us: radical transparency, radical abundance, and radical reporting. Abundance is having a moment – from the current chart-topping bestseller by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Abundance, which I haven’t yet read)