Archive - The Zeitgeist Distilled

ZD 26.42: The Great Chicken Feed Hedge

Find the business behind the business for the win.

Oct 20 • Wyatt Barnett

ZD 26.41: The Human Skills Frontier

AI is still only as effective as the person operating it.

Oct 13 • Wyatt Barnett

ZD 26.40: One App To Rule Them All

One agent to find them, one agent to bind them.

Oct 6 • Wyatt Barnett

September 2026

ZD 26.39: Watering the Cows

Cows and crops are thirstier than servers.

Sep 29 • Wyatt Barnett

ZD 26.38: Social Scurvy

You don’t crave what you don’t know you are missing.

Sep 22 • Wyatt Barnett

ZD 26.37: Software is Easy. Service is Hard.

AI is smart, but AI is not accountable.

Sep 15 • Wyatt Barnett

ZD 26.36: Misreading the Corporate Tea Leaves

Slow death by a thousand filings. No autopsy ordered.

Sep 8 • Wyatt Barnett

Take Your Agent to Draft Day

AI is the hottest thing to come to fantasy football since the Superflex

Sep 7 • Wyatt Barnett

ZD 26.35: Soaking the Salt Caves

How to wear a hole in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Sep 1 • Wyatt Barnett

August 2026

ZD 26.34: The Great Harness Race

The AI harness matters more than the frontier model these days.

Aug 25 • Wyatt Barnett

ZD 26.33: The Jay Cooke Playbook

Believing in yourself is great, backing yourself is risky.

Aug 18 • Wyatt Barnett

ZD 26.32: Optimized to the Limit

The limit pushes back.

Aug 11 • Wyatt Barnett

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