Signal Intelligence

Weekly tactical signals and timing intelligence

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 Open Source Model That's Smarter Than Its Name
Tech & Innovation

The Open Source Model That's Smarter Than Its Name

Alibaba's Qwen team released a model called Qwen3-Coder-Next. The name says coding. The benchmarks say something much bigger. Why open-source naming conventions are hiding the real revolution.

5 min read
The Scaling Lie: What Dario Amodei Won't Say Out Loud
Signal Intelligence

The Scaling Lie: What Dario Amodei Won't Say Out Loud

Dario Amodei told Dwarkesh Patel we're near the end of the exponential. Big Tech is spending $650 billion on AI infrastructure this year. One of these positions is wrong.

6 min read
Andrew Yang Is Right (And It's Already Too Late)
Signal Intelligence

Andrew Yang Is Right (And It's Already Too Late)

Yang says AI will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in 12-18 months. He's being generous. The layoffs aren't coming — they're already here, moving in slow motion under names like 'efficiency gains' and 'not backfilling.'

7 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 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.

5 min read
The Week Everything Shifted
Signal Intelligence

The Week Everything Shifted

Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI. Wall Street holds two contradictory fears. 341 malicious AI agent skills found. Tesla puts Grok in European cars. What the signals are saying.

5 min read
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.

29 min read
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.

3 min read