Archive - Vlad's Newsletter

"Not Me" Podcast Episode #12: The Geopolitics of Growth

Your business now has a political beta. Most operators have never measured theirs.

Aug 19 • Vladyslav Podoliako

24:34

The Probability Tax

Why a two-hour AI film needed 473,600 generations, plus the exact prompt skeleton that lowers your bill.

Aug 17 • Vladyslav Podoliako

We are funding one side of the intelligence equation and assuming the other side stays in control. Here is what the missing hedge would cost.

Aug 11 • Vladyslav Podoliako

July 2026

1,224 frontier lab employees asked for a brake. By the time I finished writing this, 1,273. Nobody asked who gets to pull it.

Jul 30 • Vladyslav Podoliako

The first term sheet ever written for the singularity: what humanity gets, what it pays, and the quiet October night when it all gets decided.

Jul 10 • Vladyslav Podoliako

Fable is back. Which is exactly why I need to talk to you about the minds nobody can ever take away from you.

Jul 7 • Vladyslav Podoliako

When every credential can be forged for free, the only thing left to sell is your name on the line.

Jul 3 • Vladyslav Podoliako

June 2026

The Attention Floor

The bottleneck has been moving for decades. It just reached the one station it can never leave: a human, with a fixed number of hours, paying attention.

Jun 30 • Vladyslav Podoliako

The Anti-Content Premium

When the copies are free, the only thing left to sell is the proof a human was here.

Jun 25 • Vladyslav Podoliako

How I Built Flick in Three Hours

Web, iOS, Chrome, and three complete designs, built from A to Z with Fable 5 while it lasted. The code was never the bottleneck. The decisions were.

Jun 22 • Vladyslav Podoliako

"Not Me" Podcast Episode #11: The Founder's Playbook: Building an AI-Native Startup

Building an AI-Native Startup. Building is free now. Being wrong isn't.

Jun 19 • Vladyslav Podoliako

14:23

Restructuring Lag

Electricity won in 1900 and factory output sat flat for thirty years. We're living the replay

Jun 18 • Vladyslav Podoliako

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