International Diversification

U.S. investors are pulling money out of their own stock market at the fastest pace in at least 16 years as Big Tech returns fade and better-performing overseas markets look more attractive.
https://www.reuters.com/business/buy-america-bye-america-wall-street-exodus-gathers-pace-2026-02-20/ 

The Past and the Future

Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion/history-hope-delusion.html 

Tech and the Human Brain

How technology is reshaping our minds
https://www.ft.com/content/b56fcaba-b36d-44f1-affa-24a049a66638
Competing demands on our attention are undermining our ability to focus.
 
FT’s Tej Parikh notes:
Technology is designed to create efficiency. It allows us to search, retrieve and analyze data faster, freeing us for higher thinking.
But humans have an inbuilt evolutionary tendency to conserve cognitive energy and seek out dopamine hits. Market economies optimize for this. As mental friction is engineered away, the tools we need for deeper cognition risk atrophying. For example, sustained concentration helps strengthen attention, tackling long texts deepens comprehension and forming arguments without prompts builds originality. 

Gorillaz - New Track [MUSIC]

Gorillaz - Orange County ft Bizarrap, Kara Jackson, Anoushka Shankar
https://youtu.be/QO7b_xX-Z-g
https://youtu.be/X70VHzox6uA 

Humanity's Demise

Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher
Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible? 

Tech Booms – AI versus Dot-Com

People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/technology/ai-boom-backlash.html
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence. 

Trump's Tariff War Enters a New Phase

It’s the End of the Beginning of the Tariff War
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/its-the-end-of-the-beginning-of-the-tariff-war-88a08d37
The Supreme Court rules against Trump, but his administration has been working on Plan B.
 
Trump Lost on Tariffs, but Trade Will Never Be the Same
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-lost-on-tariffs-but-trade-will-never-be-the-same-7ff24afc
U.S. trade policy will be less chaotic, but it won’t go back to what prevailed before 2025.
Related:
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/supreme-court-trump-tariffs-decision-explained-61d5ca9b