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Analysis at the intersection of tech, economics, and society — from Korea
OZ Talking publishes three structural analyses a week. Not news recaps — the incentives, unit economics, and second-order effects behind them, with a vantage point Western media doesn't have: Seoul. There are 140+ essays in the archive. Start with these.
If you work in AI
Frameworks and contrarian takes on where AI is actually heading.
AI & Tech What Is an AI Harness? The Secret Behind 100x Productivity
The Claude Code leak settled it: the gap between AI users comes not from intelligence, but from the shell wrapped around the model.
AI & Tech AI Is Getting Smarter. Is It Also Getting More Alike?
A NeurIPS award-winning study finds that leading AI models converge on nearly identical answers to open-ended questions.
Society In the AI Era, Cultivate Taste, Not Skills
Technology creates dependence, but taste becomes an asset nothing can replace.
AI & Tech The Price of Not Looking at China Properly
Two large-scale studies show Western scientists barely cite Chinese papers — and Korea has the same blind spot in batteries and chips.
If you follow tech & business
The structure behind the headlines — unit economics, incentives, second-order effects.
Business Why "Software Eats the World" Has Expired
As AI makes software abundant, economic power is swinging back toward the physical world of hardware.
Business Amazon's Math: Cut 30,000, Hire 11,000
Employees gaming an AI-usage leaderboard exposed the crack in the demand story behind Big Tech's $700B capex
Business Why Apple Pays Google $1 Billion a Year
Distilling Gemini instead of building it: the strategy of betting on 2 billion pockets over benchmark crowns.
AI & Tech The End of MAU—And Now MRR Can't Be Trusted Either
AI firms' 'annual revenue' is just monthly revenue × 12 — a fiction that breaks once inference costs hit margins directly.
Dispatches you can only get from Korea
Asia-side signals Western media rarely covers — from the frontline of chips, robots, and platforms.
AI & Tech Inside America's $165 Billion Bet to Rebuild Chipmaking
America invented the semiconductor — now it's relearning how to make one, with $165 billion riding on the Arizona desert.
AI & Tech Robots at $5 an Hour: What Will Humans Do?
The question is shifting from how well robots perform to what humans do.
Society Yakult Ladies: Japan's Safety Net, Korea's Delivery App
The same probiotic drink delivery workers prevent lonely deaths in Japan and deliver credit cards in Korea.
Business Selling Fear to Job Seekers
How one careful Stanford paper about a single hiring tool got stripped of context, step by step, and repackaged as AI panic.