2026-08-14
2026.33: The CapEx Train Keeps Rolling
The best Stratechery content from the week of August 10, 2026, including the capital constraint, AI writing, and a tale of two cities.
Why Your Top Performers Quit Right After Their Biggest Wins (and How to Prevent It)
Your best people are not quitting after their worst years. They are quitting after their best ones. That is the problem nobody is tracking.
One AI Output Is an Example, Not an Evaluation
One output cannot establish how well an AI system performs. Evaluate with multiple representative inputs, repeated runs, and confidence intervals.
Psychological Ownership: Own the Right Things
Psychological ownership can make you more effective, but you’ll struggle if it attaches to things you can’t control. Spot misplaced ownership and redirect it.
The Pride of Greenville, South Carolina: 4,600 F-16 Fighting Falcon Fighters Have Been Built Since 1976 But Stealth Fighters Like the F-35 and J-20 Have Arrived
Upgrades can’t make the jet stealthy or fifth-generation. But the F-16’s longevity demonstrates how important growth potential can be for keeping an aircraft relevant decades after its original design function...
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine
Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Congress Is Opening an Investigation Into ‘Roblox’ Over Child Exploitation
US Senators Josh Crawley and Dick Durbin are launching a congressional investigation into Roblox over NSFW content and alleged grooming.
AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds
AI companies are the fossil fuel industry's best friends. The post AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds appeared first on Futurism.
Hackaday Podcast Episode 382: Glueballs, Borg Cubes, and Supersonic Trebuchets
It’s still hot on both sides of the Atlantic, but Kristina has a new secret weapon for staying cool without making noise. Will Elliot and the others follow suit? Time...
Patchdle is the Toughest Wordle-like for Gamers
Patchdle, a new daily browser game, lets you guess the video game based on its patch notes.
Google’s ‘Material 3’ Design Write-Up Is 93.3 Percent Embarrassing
This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on...
Majora's Mask Gets a Sci-Fi Twist in This Cozy 2023 RPG
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a time-loop deckbuilder where your memories are literal playing cards — and one of its 29 endings involves a dog-boy.
We've been tracking graphics card prices for exactly one year and it's never been worse than this
And I don't know where we go from here. Any positive thoughts welcome.
Fields of Mistria review
It's a shojo anime fever dream with a level of character writing I didn't know I could find in a farm sim.
The Power of a ‘Warm Introduction’ Is Real. These Two Founders Are Working to Make Those Connections Happen.
In a world drowning in cold emails, two connectors built a company on one belief: the right introduction changes everything.
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age
Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology
Behind the Blog: Endless Scam Parade
This week, we discuss the mainstreaming of Flock, media appearances, and Spotify's AI move.
Britain Built 4 Naval Frigates for Iran. The US Navy Sank All 4 of Them
Vosper Ltd built four Mark 5 light frigates in Britain for the Imperial Iranian Navy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. All four were eventually sunk by the United...
How Love Comes to You
We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the possible, and yet the most bewildering thing about life is that its imagination is always greater than that...
Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026)
At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for...
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