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the offshore labor arbitrage is over
AI is systematically destroying the cost logic that made offshore knowledge work viable. Pakistan is a case study in growing IT exports within a rapidly…
 • Adil Husain
the peace pakistan cannot afford to miss
Three economic windows opened the moment the Iran deal was signed. Every one of them runs through Balochistan. A clear-eyed look at what Pakistan…
 • Adil Husain
the cattle ranch theory of higher education
Deep Springs College educates 26 students per year on a working cattle ranch. The New York Times, staffed almost exclusively by graduates of the elite…
 • Adil Husain
the twenty five years
A residential college gives you the conditions. The rest is on you. On what Middlebury gave me, what it didn't, and what I only understood twenty-five…
 • Adil Husain

May 2026

2.28 billion ways to lose
Three strategic errors that run through every large organization. And a fourth that confirms the first three.
 • Adil Husain
claude knows more about me than they do
AI reads my emails, my bank account, my CRM. It knows more about me right now than any advisor or peer. I'm going to Alaska on my annual founders…
 • Adil Husain
America's Real China Trade Problem Is Hidden in Plain Sight
Trump is in Beijing negotiating planes and soybeans. The structural barriers shutting America's most competitive industries out of China's market are…
 • Adil Husain
You Can't Wear a Certificate
The AP x Swatch Royal Pop drops this week. What it reveals about Coursera, Emeritus, and everyone who lists Harvard Business School on their LinkedIn…
 • Adil Husain
overcoming the stalemate problem
What Hormuz, TikTok, and Nippon Steel reveal about how standoffs actually end, and the diagnostic every strategy team should run before assuming time is…
 • Adil Husain
forbes discovered georgetown
On the business model hiding inside business media. Forbes surveyed executives about some very prestigious schools they already recruit from, named the…
 • Adil Husain

April 2026

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