The Sixth Moat
Mike Bloch is right that time is the meta-moat underneath all defensible value in the age of AI. But time isn’t empty. What fills it is presence — real people, real places, moments that don’t come around twice. The scarce thing isn’t information anymore. It’s grounded information. Someone was there.
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The Network That Knows You’re Real
A speculative design for a social network where identity is verified through human witnessing, not data. By grounding trust in real relationships and presence, it challenges scalable, algorithmic systems and reimagines online interaction as slower, more accountable, and rooted in social cost rather than frictionless verification.
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When the Audience Stops Caring
What happens to performance when the crowd isn’t human The previous post ended with a question I can’t stop thinking about. If social capital is increasingly built on digital signals, e.g. followers, checkmarks, engagement, reach, and if those signals can now be manufactured wholesale, who exactly is the audience for the game? And if that…
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