Week of 24 August 2026

The week's through-line is the hidden price of abundance. Compute is now being sold on promotional rates with expiry dates, plausible text has become so cheap that LinkedIn is rationing reach with a report button, and the record of a sales conversation has never been more complete while the judgement behind it thins out. Two posts read fresh news — OpenAI's dated Sol price cut alongside Google's introductory Gemini 3.7 Flash rate, and LinkedIn's AI-slop crackdown — and two argue that in every case the scarce thing left is a decision someone actually made.

Images weren’t auto-generated this run — each post carries a ready-to-paste prompt instead.

• #1Published
  AI × entrepreneurshipPrediction

  The ladder that stopped going up

  Stanford just measured the effects on career ladders when Ai gets good enough to compete.

  Tue · 07:30-09:00

  1,109 / 3,000 · folds at ~210

  
• #2Draft
  AI × salesContrarian take

  The perfect CRM nobody reads

  Your CRM has never been more complete. It has never been less useful.

  Wed · 07:30-09:00

  590 / 3,000 · folds at ~210

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• #3Draft
  AI × marketingPlatform shift read

  LinkedIn removed its own AI writing button

  LinkedIn deleted its 'write with AI' button and gave everyone else a button to report you.

  Thu · 07:30-09:00

  1,768 / 3,000 · folds at ~210

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• #4Draft
  AI × entrepreneurshipTactical how-to

  Write the twenty examples first

  Before you write the prompt, write twenty examples of the correct answer.

  Fri · 07:30-09:00

  628 / 3,000 · folds at ~210

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