Takes
Quick reads on AI, finance and M&A, neuroscience, and product and design, written while the news is still news.
November 2026
One Anthropic researcher puts the odds that AI kills us all within a decade above 10%. I went through the research to see how software we built could ever stop taking orders.
22 min read
Psychedelics went from banned to a White House priority in a few years. I dug into what they do in the brain, what the trials actually show, what users report, and who stands to make money, to answer one question: is the hype real?
13 min read
I wanted to understand why AI-generated video keeps winning the scroll, so I looked at where it's made, what people say about it, how its scripts are built and what neuroscience says about why we keep watching.
7 min read