I Know Kung Fu and AI

The Church lost the printing press to the Reformation, the university to the Enlightenment, the broadcast tower to the network executives, and the internet to the technologists. They might not lose this one. The handshake is the news. Whose hands are on the wheel is the bigger news.

Two hundred and sixty-two players got drafted to the NFL in April 2022. The last one was a quarterback from Iowa State whose draft profile read "limited arm strength, average athleticism, unlikely to develop into a starter." His name was Brock Purdy.

Two hundred and twenty-two years ago Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton on a field in Weehawken, and an Irish exile stepped into the empty chair five months later and built a roof that lasted longer than the Russian Empire. I walked under that roof this morning with a pen in my hand. The lights were on but the life was off. The walls were stripped. A marble bust watched me from a shelf and I didn't recognize the man. This afternoon a CEO in San Diego published the playbook for tearing the roof down. Twenty-two percent of the staff are gone. A million dollars a year is the new band for the ones who stay. The duel is back.