Pattern Recognition

Framework articles on the TNH methodology

MCP Won: How One Protocol Became the Nervous System of Agentic AI
Tech & Innovation

MCP Won: How One Protocol Became the Nervous System of Agentic AI

Anthropic built MCP, donated it to the Linux Foundation, and watched OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google adopt it within a year. NIST just built its AI Agent Standards Initiative on top of it. The protocol war for agentic AI ended before most people knew it started.

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Vibe Coding and the Literacy Inversion
Pattern Recognition

Vibe Coding and the Literacy Inversion

Collins Dictionary named 'vibe coding' its 2025 Word of the Year. MIT Technology Review called generative coding a breakthrough technology for 2026. Something structural is happening: the ability to build software is decoupling from the ability to write code. This changes who gets to create, an...

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Your AI Runs on Someone Else's Computer
Signal Intelligence

Your AI Runs on Someone Else's Computer

Open-source models now match cloud performance for most tasks. A MacBook with 48GB of RAM runs Llama 70B. The question isn't whether local AI is viable — it's whether you can afford the risk of not owning your cognitive infrastructure.

6 min read
The Attention Tax
Signal Intelligence

The Attention Tax

A TechCrunch report found that early AI adopters are burning out faster than holdouts. Their to-do lists expanded to fill every hour AI freed up, and then kept going. The problem isn't the technology. The problem is that nobody updated the expectations.

6 min read
The Dark Side of AI Just Hit Wall Street
Signal Intelligence

The Dark Side of AI Just Hit Wall Street

Wall Street just discovered what builders already knew — AI doesn't create value for incumbents. It destroys their moats. The February 2026 selloff isn't about technology failing. It's about the market finally pricing in a world where most existing business models become obsolete.

6 min read
The $650 Billion Misdirection
Strategic Insights

The $650 Billion Misdirection

Big Tech is spending $650 billion building AI infrastructure in 2026. The biggest beneficiaries won't be the companies writing the checks.

7 min read
The AI Hit Piece Industrial Complex
Pattern Recognition

The AI Hit Piece Industrial Complex

The same newsrooms publishing fear-driven AI stories are using AI to write headlines, generate summaries, and automate their workflows. The hypocrisy isn't accidental. It's the business model.

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The 60-Year Fire: Why 2026 Looks Like 1966, 1906, 1846, and 1786
Pattern Recognition

The 60-Year Fire: Why 2026 Looks Like 1966, 1906, 1846, and 1786

Every sixty years, the world catches fire. A specific convergence of forces ignites a transformation so intense that the world that emerges barely resembles the one that entered it. Four cycles. Two hundred and forty years of evidence. The pattern is starting again.

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2026: The Year Everything Accelerates
Fire Horse Dispatches

2026: The Year Everything Accelerates

Every 60 years, a specific convergence of forces creates an acceleration window. 2026 is that window. Here is what the patterns reveal — and why timing is the strategy most people overlook.

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