I’ll Never Forget
The lesson was never the buildings. It was the arithmetic — how few people, how little money, it takes to wound a nation. Twenty-five years later, the math keeps getting worse.
Harry DeMott · Sep 11, 2026 · 10 min read
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The Doomsday Machine
In Dr. Strangelove, the Doomsday Machine is the device that ends the world automatically. The horror of it was never that a villain would choose to fire it. The horror was that it took the human hand off the switch by design, so that once it existed, nobody's intentions, not the President's, not the enemy's, not the general who started it, could call it back. That is the machine we are talking about today. Not the comedy. The mechanism.
The AI Spice Must Flow
Swap the Dune spice for a rare-earth magnet and you have the real bottleneck of the physical-AI era — not the brain, which is now free, but the thing that lets the brain move. We have the rocks. We shut the refineries. That was a choice, and it has a clock on it.
Training Day
Denzel spent all of Training Day walking the rookie through the job — the veteran teaching his own replacement. That's the deal we just signed with the agents. The office is already emptying, and the labs spent the long weekend showing why, and getting caught.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
You didn't hire a tool. You hired the brilliant houseguest who does your work, studies how you do it, and then puts on your life. Search was a fair trade. Your business isn't a trade at all.
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