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Growing Old, Handshakes, AI Mega Deals, and Stop Hiring
The world’s biggest banks are quietly rebuilding themselves in India — turning Bengaluru and Hyderabad from back offices into the new nerve centers of global finance.
Fools, Relationship Compounding, Top 100 Tech Companies, and Degeneracy
LG built an empire of trust in India — a slow, generous, human model that defied modern capitalism. Now, the question is whether that same trust can survive the pressure to go premium.
Progress, Theory of the Firm, Google AI, and Blueprint
OpenAI doesn’t just want to browse the web — it wants to be the web. Atlas is the next move in a plan to make every click, search, and habit orbit ChatGPT.
Actions, AI, E-commerce spend, and Viral Loops
The trillion-dollar AI boom is starting to look fragile — beneath the hype, the promised revolution is stalling, and the real reckoning may not be financial but moral.
Money, Trading, Ships, and Winning
How the Big Four consulting giants are using generative AI to stay relevant — and why the race for speed could cost them the trust they built their empires on.
Bears, Airplane Leasing, Cycling, and AI Chatbots
The Braintree founder has turned himself into a $2 million-a-year longevity experiment — part science, part startup, and part spiritual quest to prove that dying is just another problem to solve.
