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The Twelfth Brain Newsletter

Intelligence on what knowledge is, what it costs when it disappears, and what we are building.

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The newsletter publishes when we have something substantial to say, when a piece of the problem has been understood more precisely, when a beautiful mind has been interviewed, when a product decision has been made whose reasoning is worth sharing.

What you will find here:

  • The science behind why expertise is fragile, and what it takes to preserve it
  • The beautiful minds series: specific people, specific intelligence, specific stakes
  • The architecture philosophy: how Twelfth Brain is built and why
  • The civilisational argument: for the first time, intelligence is becoming inheritable

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From the Founders

“The information age promised to be the greatest amplifier of human intelligence in history. Instead it is producing the loudest, most superficial noise in history. This newsletter is the counter-argument, one piece of thinking at a time.”