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The Invisible Operating System argued that human civilization runs on a vast substrate of tacit knowledge that AI does not carry.
May 15
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Matt Rathbun
March 2026
The Experiential Index
You cannot use words to convey what warm sunshine feels like on your skin.
Mar 15
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What You Wrote, What You Meant, and What Your AI Understood
Try to describe the feeling of warm sunshine on your skin.
Mar 15
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New Gravity
I was in the middle of a conversation about AI with friends — all of us senior technology leaders, all of us deep into this — when I said something I…
Mar 9
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The Long Con at Machine Speed
There’s a scene in The Sting where Henry Gondorff explains the difference between a short con and a long con.
Mar 8
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Matt Rathbun
February 2026
The Invisible Operating System: What Breaks When AI Enters a World Built for Humans
Last year, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski went on Bloomberg to explain something nobody expected him to say.
Feb 28
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The Architecture You Can't Document
I spent the early part of my career believing that being the smartest person in the room was how you earned the right to lead.
Feb 21
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Matt Rathbun
AI Won't Be Afraid of Getting Fired
Every time something fundamentally new enters technology, we do the same thing: we reshape it until it looks like what we already know.
Feb 14
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Matt Rathbun
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