John Kinson

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Make Light Work

Why Physical AI Changes What Matters

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  1. 2 September 2026

    TL;CR: Too Long, Can’t Read

    AI has read it so you don’t have to. Probably.
  2. 15 May 2026

    Who Is Actually in Charge?

    On voting, potholes, and decisions taken without us.
  3. 12 May 2026

    An Englishman in America

    On scale, culture, and what it actually feels like to move from one English-speaking country to the other one.

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  1. 29 October 2026

    I'm Rich!

    Food on the table. A bit of sun. Your friends. A nice spot outside.
  2. 28 September 2026

    Only the Rich Will Think

    What happens to thinking when intelligence becomes cheap?
  3. 28 September 2026

    You Are Not a Stranger Here

    Alan Watts on how we relate to the world.

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  1. 23 July 2026

    From Market Signals to Data & AI Propositions

    An independent framework for turning authoritative public evidence and sector research into commercially credible data and AI opportunities.
  2. 6 July 2026

    Who Actually Maintains Trino's Connectors?

    Two years of commits to every documented Trino connector, with fleet-wide housekeeping separated from real attention: the lakehouse three absorb half of it, the median connector gets less than one specific commit a month, and two people write a third of all of it.
  3. 4 July 2026

    Every Disagreement Is the Same Disagreement

    146 years of House roll-call votes: American politics was often this divided, but it has never been this one-dimensional. The second axis of conflict is dead, and that changes how everything else works.