Thought Stream — week of 20 Jul 2026
In an age of incessant propaganda, “thinking for yourself” is a crucial trait.
A common misconception is that it just means being anti-establishment.
No.
Nor does it mean adopting fringe conspiracy theories.
How do you know if you actually are?
Your belief system is a mosaic of ideas from diverse and often opposing schools of thought.
One of the things I keep hearing is that the investment in AI buildout is excessive. I have the opposite view. AI is still in its infancy and will be used in every domain.
Imagine someone who moved from manual calculations to a calculator. That person is never going to revert to manual calculation.
It is already happening in coding. Hardly anyone is writing code by hand anymore; it is all prompting.
There is going to be enormous demand for AI, and no buildout will be enough.