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michael seaman

Finance

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Roblox is Dead

Mar 25, 2026

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4 min read

Roblox is Dead

Dead and Growing: How the Market and the Middle School Cafeteria Interpret Signals Differently.

michael seaman
michael seaman

Finance

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Extended Warranty for Your Smile

Mar 20, 2026

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6 min read

Extended Warranty for Your Smile

When a Professional Recommendation and an Upsell Feel Identical.

michael seaman
michael seaman

Interactive

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Sensorship

Mar 17, 2026

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5 min read

Sensorship

Social media was built on what people said. What's replacing it runs on how people react.

michael seaman
michael seaman

Interactive

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Karma, Net 30

Mar 14, 2026

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3 min read

Karma, Net 30

What if the universe billed like a freelancer?

michael seaman
michael seaman

Interactive

+3

Reconstructing a Coincidence That Maybe Wasn't

Mar 12, 2026

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6 min read

Reconstructing a Coincidence That Maybe Wasn't

How Real Life is Getting Digital Cookies. A weird series of events led me to investigate how close we are to data based coincidences. Either that or Jim Collins' marketing team is next level.

michael seaman
michael seaman

Interactive

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Sunny Day Fund

Mar 11, 2026

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6 min read

Sunny Day Fund

From Power Plants to Balance Sheets

michael seaman
michael seaman

Culture

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The Not-So-Sweet Spot

Mar 9, 2026

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7 min read

The Not-So-Sweet Spot

The Madness of Not Getting a Chance to Compete

michael seaman
michael seaman

Culture

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The Value of a Treat

Mar 7, 2026

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7 min read

The Value of a Treat

How a $1 Gesture Can Rewrite a $1,000 Experience.

michael seaman
michael seaman

Interactive

+4

What If You Had to Power Your Own AI?

Mar 6, 2026

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8 min read

What If You Had to Power Your Own AI?

Paying For and Producing Electricity Are Not The Same Thing.

michael seaman
michael seaman

Culture

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The White Van

Mar 5, 2026

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7 min read

The White Van

The Psychology of Fear, Memory, and a Vehicle For Both

michael seaman
michael seaman

Finance

+2

Unreadable

Mar 4, 2026

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5 min read

Unreadable

Why Forty-five Million Americans are "Credit Invisible"

michael seaman
michael seaman

Finance

+5

Let Them Cook

Mar 3, 2026

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5 min read

Let Them Cook

How Burger King’s “Patty” AI May Signal a Shift Toward Real-Time Pay

michael seaman
michael seaman

Interactive

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The Liquidity Paradox

Mar 2, 2026

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6 min read

The Liquidity Paradox

The Same Feature That Lets You In Can Take You Out

michael seaman
michael seaman

Health

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The Chinese Room Maybe Has a Window

Feb 28, 2026

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5 min read

The Chinese Room Maybe Has a Window

What happens when an AI model is small enough to see inside

michael seaman
michael seaman

Work

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What If Starbucks Ran the Public Library?

Feb 27, 2026

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5 min read

What If Starbucks Ran the Public Library?

The third place gets a second owner.

michael seaman
michael seaman

Culture

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The Escape Room Effect

Feb 26, 2026

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4 min read

The Escape Room Effect

What a growing preference for locked rooms and solvable puzzles might quietly reveal about how we're all doing.

michael seaman
michael seaman

Interactive

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Unprofitable Cure

Feb 11, 2026

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3 min read

Unprofitable Cure

A Nonprofit Path To a Cure for a Rare Disease

michael seaman
michael seaman

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