In February 2026, Citrini, a macro research firm, published a piece of speculative fiction that reached an unusually wide audience. Framed as a post-mortem memo from June 2028, it described the collap…

In the mid-2000s, I was a consultant working with multiple clients in financial services. Cloud was already in the air (pun intended), but only as an idea. For years people had tossed around terms lik…

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