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BXBL May 29, 2026

Boxabl folding home SPAC is an unfolding disaster

$1.5M in revenue for 23 boxes delivered, $200M burned, a meme coin, related-party transactions, and 50,000 investors who can't sell into a nosebleed $3.5B valuation

5 min read
SPCX May 21, 2026

SpaceX's IPO Bagship carries full payload of Elon's mistakes

In which the great American space dream, it turns out, is just another vehicle where the greater fool flies coach.

6 min read
Unpopular Opinions Mar 31, 2026

Where bad ideas go to fly

SpaceX discovers the one thing AI was missing is rockets somehow

12 min read
Foundations Dec 30, 2025

Narratives pick the KPI, and the KPI picks the losers

How the metrics that attract capital in emerging tech sectors systematically favor the companies least likely to dominate long-term

3 min read
Foundations Dec 4, 2025

The pricing game versus the valuation game

Alpha for general purpose technologies skews later than you think

9 min read
Foundations Nov 20, 2025

Too many winners, not enough market

A simple framework for identifying sectors priced beyond arithmetic reality reveals which AI layers face inevitable repricing

9 min read
Foundations Nov 12, 2025

The option premium view of bubbles

Why we need our speculative manias.

15 min read
Foundations Oct 23, 2025

Moore or less the bottleneck

What happens if software outpaces hardware in AI?

8 min read
Foundations Sep 29, 2025

The AI utility trap

Rapid AI commoditization could be outpacing traditional value capture mechanisms

5 min read