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At Cannes Film Festival, Everyone Is Painting Blue Boats

Cinema cannot de-risk itself into the expensive average

May 16 • Adam Cunningham

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AI Is Coming for the Middle

The barbell economy of everything has arrived, including the self.

May 10 • Adam Cunningham

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Not Every Idea Needs an Audience

A personal invitation to the evolution of Strange Loop

May 6 • Adam Cunningham

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April 2026

TED 2026 and the Fight for the Human

Nine ideas from this year’s conference on love, work, attention, community and the things that start to matter more when everything else gets faster…

Apr 19 • Adam Cunningham

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TV Is a Behaviour: What Netflix’s Podcast Bet Reveals About the Future of Television

The bigger lesson in Netflix podcasts is not whether audio can work on TV, but how the living room is starting to reward behavioural fit over legacy…

Apr 10 • Adam Cunningham

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March 2026

A personal update

Strange Loop is where I think in public, not where I post life updates or office news.

Mar 24 • Adam Cunningham

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The Financialisation of Manipulation

When public attention becomes a market, discourse stops being something we share and starts becoming something speculators can game.

Mar 8 • Adam Cunningham

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February 2026

This Was A Netflix Essay Until Paramount Walked In

Re-scoring my five implications with a new buyer and new headaches

Feb 27 • Adam Cunningham

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New Romanticism and Nostalgia

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Repricing of Origin

Feb 17 • Adam Cunningham

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The Internet Changed Forever This Week

We have moved past the age of "tools" and into a digital ecology of actors.

Feb 5 • Adam Cunningham

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January 2026

10 Reasons Dating Apps Are Screwing You

You hate it. You need it. That tension is the whole story.

Jan 31 • Adam Cunningham

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Is Timothée Chalamet Really the Last Movie Star?

The real question is whether Hollywood has lost the ability to manufacture star power and how the “highest-grossing actor of all time” conquered the box…

Jan 27 • Adam Cunningham

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