The Last Scarcity · Contents

Essay VIII

Parting Thoughts

What if we're right?

What if we are right?

Then somewhere not far from now, the desk is quiet at six in the morning, and it is already briefed. Everything that moved overnight, across everything owned and everything watched, read and cross-read and remembered. Three things deserve a human mind this morning. The day is spent on exactly those.

Every generation of investors before this one was limited by how much of the world a single mind could hold. Graham was. The quants were. The pod shops are. That limit is now optional.

What remains is the part that was always the point: the thesis, the sizing, the nerve. Judgment, finally unbounded.

You can discount the source of this series, and you should, at least a little. We build the thing it describes. So do not take our word for any of it. Watch the arithmetic.

The arithmetic has no incentives at all.

The Last Scarcity was written in August 2026. The series is updated as the predictions in Essay VII resolve, one way or the other.