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July 4, 2026
A 250th-birthday essay: the identity, laws, and values that bind the nation — and the civic duty of upholding them as we enter the age of superintelligence.
Originally written late 2023
AI is collapsing the talent, capital, and time required to build companies — producing a bifurcated market: concentrated platforms at the top, and an explosion of AI-native companies serving increasingly specific workflows.