Mike Fox

Writing on work, business, life, and whatever else I'm chewing on.

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1 July 2026 Technology

The Last Mile Is Where the Hours Went

The AI finishes the report in ninety seconds, then you lose two hours moving it into something a client can open. The real cost of AI work was never the thinking. It was the handoff. Here's how I closed it.

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24 June 2026 Technology

Deterministic Is Still King

The AI everyone's bolting onto everything is a probability engine, and most of what a business runs on needs the same answer every time. How to tell which work needs a model and which needs a rule — before it costs you.

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21 June 2026 Technology

The Inference You Never Agreed To

Cambridge Analytica was never really about the data people handed over. It was about what could be inferred about the millions who handed over nothing — and in December 2025 Meta turned that inference into a published business model, fed by your conversations with its chatbot.

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15 June 2026 Business

The Country That Invented WiFi and Couldn't Sell It

Australia's innovation failure was never invention — it's everything that has to happen after. The proposed capital gains tax change aims straight at the one group that does that work, and it's the latest move in a forty-year habit both sides share.

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13 June 2026 Technology

The Death of the Internet

The web ran on a simple loop — make something, search sends readers, ads pay you to make the next thing. AI answer engines are quietly severing it, and draining the well they drink from.

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12 June 2026 Technology

The Cheapest Year of AI You'll Ever Have

The per-token prices your AI business case is built on are subsidised, not real. Here's what happens when the labs flip to extracting margin — and the six moves a clear-eyed operator makes now.

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