In 1930, with the economy face down in the dirt, ironworkers stacked the tallest thing on Earth in 410 days. Then it opened and almost nobody came. What that empty tower knows about the decade in front of us, and about the four percent of adults quietly training for it.
A Lightspeed Commerce shareholder since 2018 makes the case for a bold strategic pivot before the company writes its own BlackBerry ending. The clock is ticking.
The podcast had a good run. But something just walked in the door that does everything the informational podcast does — faster, deeper, and built entirely for you. Six weeks of experimenting with NotebookLM convinced me we are not watching an evolution. We are watching a replacement. Sorry, Neo was right.
For two decades, SaaS companies built empires on a beautiful, locked-in logic: make switching painful, make customization limited, make implementation expensive. The lock-in was the product. Now AI has destroyed that calculus — and over half a trillion dollars in market value has quietly disappeared to prove it.
Notes Beyond the Map 