Infrastructure and Intelligence

The Handaxe Paradox: How Three Human Species Solved Intelligence Differently

Three Minds: How Stone Tools, Neanderthal Tactics, and Symbolic Thought Reveal the Hidden Diversity of Human Intelligence

Jun 11 • 

Trey Menefee

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May 2025

The Great Taming: How We Domesticated Ourselves Through Time

A theory of human evolution reveals we didn't just learn to control fire, plants, and animals—we transformed our own species in the process

May 31 • 

Trey Menefee

The Concrete Currency: How Hong Kong Built a Financial System on Land

How Real Estate Became Hong Kong’s Central Bank

May 30 • 

Trey Menefee

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April 2025

Live from Shenzhen: Day Two After Tariffs

Lunch After the Trade War: Notes from Xichong

Apr 12 • 

Trey Menefee

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HK, Inc: The Secret Life of Chungking Mansion

A vertical WhatsApp group with a food court. A billion-dollar stairwell. And a 10-year-old systems theorist named Slay Potato.

Apr 10 • 

Trey Menefee

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Domesticating Silicon: Why Language Models Suck at Math—and Why That’s Not the Point

Inside the Strange Limits of Language Models—and the Revolution They Accidentally Unleashed

Apr 9 • 

Trey Menefee

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What If We’re Not Just Building AI—We’re Domesticating It?

Fire, dogs, books, and now silicon—how history’s oldest human pattern is playing out again, and why this time it’s building minds.

Apr 8 • 

Trey Menefee

ChatGPT Didn’t Break the Economy—But the Question Might Have

How a Shallow Pompt Became a Global Trade Policy - and What it Teaches Us About Using LLM's Wisely

Apr 6 • 

Trey Menefee

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June 2020

The Fall of Hong Kong?

What is Article 23 and Three Implementation Scenarios

Jun 10, 2020 • 

Trey Menefee

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March 2020

COVID19: The Outlook from Hong Kong

This is Bad

Mar 11, 2020 • 

Trey Menefee

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December 2019

A Calm After The Storm

A few theories about why Hong Kong is so 'quiet' lately

Dec 10, 2019 • 

Trey Menefee

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November 2019