What Is Your AI Moat? Silicon Valley Says Distribution, and It Gets Harder Every Year
What is a moat when AI copies any product? Pieter Levels, Peter Thiel, a16z and Paul Graham point to distribution. Why it gets harder every year.
Do TikTok Account Farms Work? Keep the 40-Post Test, Drop the Fake Comments
Do TikTok account farms work? A PhD in machine learning audits the 1,000-account playbook: what works, what breaks, what is legal and what founders keep.
How Your Startup Can Use Its Comment Section Like the Russian Government
Comment section strategy for startups: what Russia’s comment armies get right and wrong, herding research, comment traps vs engagement bait, and a founder handbook.
How Founder-Led Startups Make Short-Form Content at Scale Without a Full-Time Content Team
How founder-led startups make short-form content at scale without a content team: one primary channel, one hour a day, five to ten pieces, and shares read first.
What David Ogilvy Would Do With TikTok Analytics: the Testing Loop Behind Hormozi’s $4M Content Machine, Now Run by AI
Hormozi spent $4M over 40 months on his content machine. How to run its short-form testing loop with AI, without fooling yourself, by a PhD in AI.
Startups Now Buy Their Viral Launches on X. A Million Views Rents the Timeline for One Day
Startups now pay networks of accounts to make their launch go viral on X. What it costs, why it fades in a day, the rules, and what to build instead.
Paying UGC Creators on Performance Beats Agencies. Only Founders Who Lead Their Creators Will Win
Paying UGC creators a share of ad spend beats agencies. But the model is linear. The founders who lead their creators will win.
I Used Board Game Theory to Get Hundreds of Millions of Views on TikTok
How a PhD in AI and a game festival president used board game theory and the slot machine math of TikTok to build a short-form content method.
Can mathematicians Survive AI?
OpenAI posted 722 AI math papers. Are the proofs correct, who will check them, and how do experts survive AI? A PhD in AI on verification and understanding.
Can an AI Fall in Love?
Can an AI fall in love, and can you fall in love with one? A PhD in AI and neuroscience on the three systems of love, functional emotions in models, and the day OpenAI switched off a personality.