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📈 The Architecture of Innovation: On jokes, genius, and the AI economy we haven't built yet
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There is a moment — you've felt it — when a joke lands just right. Not a polite chuckle, not a social reflex, but the real thing: a full-body release, something almost involuntary, like a hiccup of the soul. For a split second, your brain held two incompatible truths simultaneously and then, unable to contain them both, simply laughed. What if that moment — that tiny, human, ridiculous moment — turns out to be one of the most important cognitive events in the known universe?
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