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Pointer to the Partnership Principles for framework material.
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July 29, 2026
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Separation, Not Ownership
Alphabet invests in Anthropic on condition that Anthropic spends the money on Google compute. Amazon does the same and books the revaluation as profit. Two customers now account for more than half of a two trillion dollar cloud backlog, and the providers recording it helped pay for it. Here is what that breaks, and what it does not.
I Spent a Career Trying to Give You Back Your Data. This Week, Garmin Took Some of Mine.
July 27, 2026 · 8 min read
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The Missing Arkhipov
July 20, 2026 · 10 min read
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The Wrong Layer: Why Obfuscating Data Won’t Fix AI’s Trust Problem
June 25, 2026 · 10 min read
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No Surprises: The Caldicott Principles and the Gap NHS England Admitted on 15 June
June 19, 2026 · 10 min read
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The Arcadian Vellum
June 11, 2026 · 12 min read
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Compass, Not Map: How to Read Terrain When Media Offers Falsified Charts
May 11, 2026 · 12 min read
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The Glasswing Paradox
April 22, 2026 · 9 min read
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Four Signals From Anthropic That Should Change How You Think About Partnerships
April 16, 2026 · 13 min read
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The Ethical Ratchet
December 31, 2025 · 15 min read
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When Fiction Becomes Field Manual: Why We Need to Break Up with Big Tech
December 13, 2025 · 11 min read
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The five Partnership Principles — Partnerships Over Transactions, Embedding Over Advising, Adventure Over Comfort, Presence Over Performance, Growth Through Discomfort — live in their own dedicated section, with a long-form essay for each.