The Salary Is Hourly Billing

The firm that bills by the hour cuts its own revenue when output per hour doubles. So does the worker on a fixed salary — one level down, same division problem.

2026-09-06 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 8 min read

Who Keeps the Dividend

Productivity is rising and the labor share just hit its lowest reading since 1947. The dividend is real. It is not being shared.

2026-09-02 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 7 min read

The Gap Isn't in the Weights

Everyone is clamoring that AI will soon cost more than the engineers it replaces. Most don't understand what is unfolding

2026-07-15 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 7 min read

The Dishes Were Load-Bearing

What a universal home robot actually does to the household isn't eliminate the argument. It relocates it... usually to worse ground.

2026-06-29 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 8 min read

We Already Ran the Experiment

The 1948–1973 economy is the control group for everything we're about to do with AI.

2026-04-27 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 9 min read

The CEO Should Have Been First

How AI deployment reveals power structure, not value and what would change if it didn't.

2026-04-26 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 8 min read

The Option Pool Shuffle

Every funding round quietly takes something from you before the money arrives. The people paying for it are never the ones who negotiated the terms.

2026-03-30 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 11 min read

The Waterfall

How a $30M exit left employees with nothing, and the liquidation preference mechanics that made it possible.

2026-03-29 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 8 min read

The Nail Gun Era: The Future Never Arrives Quietly

The Debate Isn't About Technology, It's About Timing

2025-11-03 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 3 min read