Insights
Notes from the frontier of AI, trust and synthetic reality.
Essays, analysis and field notes — written in the same plain English Tim uses on stage.
Deepfakes · Mar 2026
When the deepfake becomes the alibi
Synthetic media doesn't just create false truths. It creates plausible deniability — and that may matter more.
Read essay →AI · Feb 2026
Slopaganda is the real product launch
Emotionally intelligent AI persuasion is shipping faster than the institutions designed to resist it.
Read essay →Trust · Feb 2026
The end of evidence as we knew it
What courts, newsrooms and boards lose when proof becomes optional.
Read essay →Blockchain · Jan 2026
Tokenisation, finally past the hype curve
RWAs are quietly building the rails everyone said blockchain never would.
Read essay →Synthetic Media · Jan 2026
Detection alone won't save us
Why confirmation infrastructure matters more than another classifier.
Read essay →Speaking · Dec 2025
How to keynote a moving target
Notes on staying truthful when the subject changes between slides.
Read essay →Strategy · Dec 2025
AI as a thinking partner, not an answer engine
The leverage is in the dialogue, not the output.
Read essay →Storytelling · Nov 2025
Cinema is the original trust protocol
What screenwriters have always known about belief, applied to the AI era.
Read essay →AI · Nov 2025
The architecture of doubt, in one diagram
A working sketch of how synthetic reality reshapes institutional trust.
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