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The River Is Sold Out: Whitewater Rafting Outfitters and the Post-AI Economy
August 19, 2026
Founder, Modern Zen

The River Is Sold Out: Whitewater Rafting Outfitters and the Post-AI Economy

Issue 1 of The Convening Economy. A half-billion-dollar industry whose volume hasn't grown since 1998, whose guides score exactly zero on AI exposure, and whose scarcest asset is a government permit — and why that combination is a preview of which businesses hold value as cognitive work gets cheap.

Sedale Turbovsky

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The Feeling Machine: Why Your Emotions Are Already Synthetic — And Why AI's Might Be Real
March 2, 2026
Managing Partner

The Feeling Machine: Why Your Emotions Are Already Synthetic — And Why AI's Might Be Real

Two converging forces are poised to fundamentally restructure the care economy within the next decade. First, artificial intelligence systems have achieved levels of emotional pattern recognition and affective response generation that meet or exceed human benchmarks across multiple care domains.

Sedale Turbovsky

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The BPO Industry at an Inflection Point: AI, Disruption, and Strategic Rebalancing
January 22, 2026
Founding Partner

The BPO Industry at an Inflection Point: AI, Disruption, and Strategic Rebalancing

The Business Process Outsourcing industry stands at a fundamental inflection point. The sector, valued at approximately $323–348 billion in 2025, is projected to reach $906 billion by 2035, expanding at a steady 9–10% compound annual growth rate.

Sedale Turbovsky

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January 17, 2026
Founding Partner

Learning From The Luddites

History does not repeat verbatim, but it rhymes with precision. The failed revolutionaries of the 1800s are not relics; they are case studies. Their mistakes map cleanly onto modern techno-political movements, AI utopianism, and economic populism.

Sedale Turbovsky

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January 16, 2026
Founding Partner

AI Agents and the Future of Work

Agentic artificial intelligence represents an unprecedented acceleration in enterprise technology adoption, compressing 70% enterprise adoption timelines from 8 years (traditional AI) to just 2-3 years.

Sedale Turbovsky

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