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Month: May 2025

From Bots to Browsers: Adtech in the Age of Agents

Posted on May 25, 2025May 25, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

While still small in volume, the behavioral signal is loud: LLMs are becoming a discovery layer. Not just answering questions, but routing demand.

Bots are becoming browsers.

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What I Believe, How I Think, and Why I Lead the Way I Do

Posted on May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

I build because I want to change what’s possible for people. I believe we can design systems that help people reenter growth, reconnect to purpose, and reclaim agency—whenever they’re ready.

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Adtech’s Blind Spot: Why CDNs Won’t Win in the Agentic Internet

Posted on May 19, 2025May 19, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

What if your content loads in 50 milliseconds—but no one ever sees it? In the AI-mediated internet, delivery isn’t the problem. Discovery is. CDNs and the Attention Economy For most of the web’s commercial history, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have been indispensable. They allowed publishers and platforms to serve content rapidly, reduce latency, and keep…

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Farewell Web 4.0, We Hardly Knew You. Long Live the Post-Web Era.

Posted on May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

Introduction If you’ve been following my work, you might have noticed that I’ve used the term Web 4.0 to describe the next phase of the internet—a shift that I initially framed as an evolution of the web itself. That term came out of the work I did last year, building on ideas from Web 3.0—ideas that are…

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Meta’s Move Isn’t a Power Grab. It’s a Survival Signal.

Posted on May 3, 2025May 4, 2025 by Chevan Nanayakkara

This past week, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines with a bold new vision for Meta’s ad platform: soon, small businesses won’t need to worry about creative, targeting, or even analytics. All they’ll need is a goal and a budget. Meta’s AI will handle the rest—automatically generating content, selecting the audience, optimizing the spend, and reporting the…

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  • The Case for Biden: The Best Presidency for Ordinary Americans Since the 1970sApril 5, 2026
  • Good Faith is Democratic InfrastructureMarch 1, 2026
  • Be a Builder.February 22, 2026
  • The Broken Infrastructure of Hope: How Americans Lost Faith in Self-Governance, and How to Rebuild ItFebruary 1, 2026
  • Venezuela Is a Symptom. Neo-Feudalism Is the Disease.January 7, 2026
  • Defending Democratic Capitalism Through Capacity StewardshipJanuary 5, 2026
  • Defending Democratic Capitalism from the Extreme LeftDecember 23, 2025
  • Defending Democratic Capitalism from the Extreme RightDecember 23, 2025
  • Obamacare Succeeded at Health Insurance but Was Always Doomed to Fail at HealthcareDecember 7, 2025
  • Federal Taxes Don’t Fund the Government: We’ve Known This Since 1946December 2, 2025
  • How to Make Economics a ScienceNovember 30, 2025
  • Universal Basic Income (UBI) isn’t the right solution, the U.S. needs Universal Basic Assets (UBA)November 16, 2025
  • Beyond Capitalism vs. SocialismNovember 10, 2025
  • Why Monetary Systems MatterNovember 9, 2025
  • Why Economic Models MatterNovember 8, 2025
  • AdCP Launched Today. In 2 Years, You Won’t Log Into Ad PlatformsOctober 15, 2025
  • What is AI Psychosis? Why Using AI is very Different than a Google SearchSeptember 24, 2025
  • The Irreducible Human Core: 8 Capabilities That Make You More Valuable Than AISeptember 4, 2025
  • Thriving in the AI-Age: How to be a Generative Human using Generative AI as your Cognitive WorkbenchAugust 19, 2025
  • Want to Use AI Better? Identify Your Use Case FirstAugust 11, 2025
  • The AI Slang Dictionary: The 55 Terms Everyone Should Know in August 2025August 1, 2025
  • The Politics of Stakeholder Society: A New Way to Understand Left vs. RightJuly 17, 2025
  • The Parasite’s Dilemma: How AI Destroys the Quality Information Supply Chain It Depends OnJuly 14, 2025
  • The Opportunity Economy Toolkit: What You Need to Unleash America’s PromiseJuly 10, 2025
  • 50 Years of Economic Myths Have Delivered Americans Into TechnofeudalismJuly 3, 2025
  • From SaaS to COGSware: Why the AI cognition economy changes everything about software marginsJune 30, 2025
  • Introducing Opportunity Economics: How to Make Capitalism Work for EveryoneJune 24, 2025
  • Economics is not a ScienceJune 24, 2025
  • How Corporate-Friendly Accounting Rules Create a $30 Trillion Transfer from Consumers into Wealthy PocketsJune 24, 2025
  • Your Mainstream Economics Decoder RingJune 22, 2025
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