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Hearing the reach
What the transcript erased, and what the next class of voice models doesn’t.
Jun 4 • Tabrez Syed

May 2026

You Can’t Break a Rule You Never Learned
Why the AI feed is louder than it is useful, and what to do instead.
May 28 • Tabrez Syed
Bring Someone Who Wants You to Lose
Good work needs an opponent. Most AI workflows don’t have one.
May 21 • Tabrez Syed
To Think Is to Forget
How my agent and I learned to throw things away.
May 14 • Tabrez Syed
The $495 Screw
Simplicity has a smaller market.
May 7 • Tabrez Syed

April 2026

Already Normal
The hedonic treadmill doesn’t just dull wonder. It dissolves fear too.
Apr 30 • Tabrez Syed
When Exponentials Turn Out to Be S-Curves
The world is curved. We keep drawing lines.
Apr 23 • Tabrez Syed
The Disappearing Harness
Harnesses exist to direct dumb power. What happens when the power isn’t dumb?
Apr 16 • Tabrez Syed
From Second Brain to Shared Brain
The hottest idea in AI this week is something a German sociologist figured out with index cards in 1953.
Apr 9 • Tabrez Syed
I Made This
When creative barriers drop, a rush follows. What happens after is the interesting part.
Apr 2 • Tabrez Syed

March 2026

The Promotion I Missed
What managing a new hire taught me about working with AI
Mar 26 • Tabrez Syed
The Poorly Lit Factory
What a tent in a Tesla parking lot tells us about the future of AI-generated code
Mar 19 • Tabrez Syed
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