Introduction: The Cracks in the Old Machine I remember the grind of running a retail clothing business in the early 2000s—sourcing finished products from wholesalers who had already handled the upstream work, navigating their markups at every turn, and stocking shelves with trends that often missed the mark. It was a linear beast: goods arrived […]
Introduction Growing up in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s, I watched the world of media transform in ways that felt both subtle and profound. Back then, information was siloed—television was for broadcasts, newspapers for print, and radio for audio. Each operated as a vertical, a self-contained channel with its own rules and limitations.
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Introduction Consider the ancient legend of the chessboard and the grains of wheat. An inventor asks a king for a seemingly modest reward: one grain on the first square, two on the second, doubling each time up to the 64th square—culminating in about nine quintillion grains on that final square alone. Importantly, the inventor claims
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Introduction In today’s world, where economic pressures shape nearly every aspect of life, it’s worth pausing to examine how our education systems function not as beacons of enlightenment, but as factories churning out efficient units of labor. This isn’t a conspiracy; it’s a historical reality rooted in the needs of capitalist economies. As we’ve seen
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Introduction In ancient Athens, I could have stood on the Pnyx hill, faced a crowd of thousands, and in three minutes swayed the city’s course—war, law, or exile decided by my words and their votes. No party machines, no bureaucrats, just citizens shaping their world directly. Fast forward to 2025’s United Kingdom, where my voice
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As a UK-based writer and investor, I’ve spent a great many hours exploring the intersections of AI, crypto, and human behaviour through essays like Why Fear and Greed Drive Markets: The Brain Behind Finance and Crypto Trends 2025: Stablecoins, Decentralization, and AI Synergy – The Ultimate Guide for Investors. In recent conversations with Grok, an
Introduction The ink was barely dry on the Federal Reserve’s July 30, 2025, decision to hold interest rates at 4.25–4.5% when President Trump dropped a bombshell: sweeping new tariffs on imports, announced August 1, 2025, slapping 10% duties on most countries and up to 41% on heavyweights like China, Canada, and Mexico, while sparing 92
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Introduction: The Unchanging Signal Amid Economic Flux Imagine a world where artificial intelligence generates infinite resources—goods, services, knowledge—at virtually no cost, overturning the traditional equation of finite supplies and endless desires. Yet, in this era of plenty, the same primal urges that drove ancient foragers to stockpile or modern traders to chase profits endure, steering
Introduction: A New Dawn for Cryptocurrency In July 2025, the U.S. Congress passed two transformative pieces of legislation—the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act and the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (Clarity Act)—ushering in a new era for cryptocurrency. For over a decade, the crypto industry has navigated a regulatory wilderness,
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In the volatile expanse of cryptocurrency investing, where fortunes pivot on liquidity waves and narrative shifts, success isn’t born from isolated tactics but from resilient mental models—interconnected frameworks that evolve daily. As a writer and investor dissecting the intersections of AI, blockchain, and human psychology through essays on aronhosie.com—having transitioned from building a photography portfolio—my
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