The Last Bottleneck Is Fear
Brett Hurt's Love Conquers Fear is not another AI book. It is a founder memo for the species, and its argument is simple: abundance is technically possible, but fear can still ruin everything.
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
Primary source: Love Conquers Fear
Why it matters
Hurt's book shows how some post-exit founders are moving from AI infrastructure into AI-era governance, influence and worldview-building.
Every technology boom eventually reveals what it actually worships.
At first, the AI boom looked like it worshiped compute. Then it worshiped benchmarks. Then distribution. Then chips. Then agents. Then data. Then the idea that whoever controls the interface controls the future.
But beneath all of that, the industry has been worshiping something older and darker: fear.…
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