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the cattle ranch theory of higher education
The New York Times Opinion section has a recurring prescription for higher education's soul crisis. It involves 26 students and a boondoggle to a cattle…
 • Adil Husain
forbes discovered georgetown
On the business model hiding inside business media, and why the publication telling you what to think about elite universities is selling crystal…
 • Adil Husain
Why I Chose to be "Bad"
What happens when you stop optimizing for agreement and start optimizing for signal
 • Adil Husain
the new operating system
Scaling a continuous intelligence system combining global talent and AI
 • Adil Husain
bad signals, costly decisions
How media ownership and skewed coverage distort executive judgment
 • Adil Husain
business media is cooked
It wasn't built to serve the reader and now AI has finished the job. A new model is emerging.
 • Adil Husain
operating in a low-trust world
Pizzagate to CDC, it's the same pipeline. Mainstream media skips the connective tissue.
 • Adil Husain
b2b media has no teeth. we're here to bite.
Why I had to build The Intelligence Council
 • Adil Husain
the whisper you finally hear
>100K subscribers in 60 days
 • Adil Husain
the unfollow is the message
What Elon Musk’s digital breakup with Trump reveals about modern power signals
 • Adil Husain
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