Better Use of AI by Knowing Its Limits
AI's productivity shortcuts will produce more output at lower quality. An eighth grader can “write” a convincing book of marriage advice. We can be the suckers consuming that material, but we might also be the “eighth grader” confidently generating it.
Matthew Goff
19 hours ago
Roll the Dice, Progress Forward
"It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." Theodore Roosevelt delivered those words at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910, in a speech called "Citizenship in a Republic." Its real subject wasn't heroism — it was the citizen. Roosevelt argued tha
Matthew Goff
Jul 1
Hormuz, Tariffs, Spurs, and Complex Systems
June 28, 2026 Matt Goff, Editor, Networthy Publishing For decades, energy analysts feared the disaster scenario: if Iran ever closed the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil, the result would be catastrophe. Some forecasts reached for $200-a-barrel oil, critical shortages, and a global recession. The logic was sound, and the people making the call knew every bit of minutia about world oil markets. In late February 2026, the scenario st
Matthew Goff
Jun 28