Field Notes with Ryan Johnson-Hunt

Field Notes Week 174/520: MIT's "Iceberg Index" for AI Job Disruption

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Apr 12

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Field Notes Week 173/520: The Rise & Fall of Openclaw

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Apr 4

2

March 2026

Field Notes Week 172/520: Who Owns Your Digital Ghost?

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Mar 29

1

Field Notes Week 171/520: Naming the Asset, Approving the Agent

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Mar 22

3

Field Notes Week 170/520:

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Mar 15

3

Field Notes Week 169/520: Technofeudalism - platform power and the question of a new economic order

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Mar 7

4

Field Notes Week 168/520: Bhutan’s successful wager on Bitcoin and economic sovereignty

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Mar 1

3

February 2026

Field Notes Week 167/520: Africa’s layered approach to digital money and identity

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Feb 22

2

Field Notes Week 166/520: When the seabed becomes strategic

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Feb 15

2

Field Notes Week 165/520: How Low Earth Orbit Satellites will change the internet

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Feb 8

2

Field Notes Week 164/520: DTCC Approves the Tokenisation of $100T in Equities

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Feb 1

3

January 2026

Field Notes Week 163/520: The AI productivity question - distribution or concentration?

These notes are shaped by what I’m seeing, building, and discussing as our physical and digital lives continue to converge.

Jan 24

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