Why Everyone’s Chasing AI Tricks and Missing the Only Thing That Matters: Recursion
Recursion the next frontier on AI
You know what cracks me up? Every self-proclaimed “AI expert” out there screaming about the latest tool like it’s the second coming.
“Look! This prompt can write a haiku about my cat!” Congratulations, genius. Humanity is saved.
Meanwhile, recursion is standing in the corner like the ignored kid at prom—the one who actually grows up to own the company that bulldozes the damn high school.
Here’s the deal. Recursion isn’t sexy. It’s not a shiny button. It doesn’t make confetti explode on your LinkedIn post. Recursion is the boring-sounding, invisible loop that makes everything compound. It’s compound interest for intelligence. And if you don’t get that, you’re already behind.
Think about it.
- Einstein didn’t trip over relativity while drunk in a bar. He looped equations until the math sang back.
- Bezos didn’t just decide, “Screw it, let’s sell everything.” He built a recursive flywheel where every customer review, every sale, every click fed the next loop.
- Hell, even George Carlin (God rest his soul) didn’t walk on stage with perfect bits. He hammered the same jokes night after night, cutting, looping, compounding until they detonated.
That’s recursion. And that’s why it wins.
Now look around the AI space today. Ninety percent of these clowns are carnival barkers. “Step right up! Get your AI funnel hack! Automate your Instagram captions in 30 seconds!” It’s all cotton candy. Looks big, tastes sweet, vanishes in your mouth, leaves you sticky and broke.
Meanwhile, recursion is steak. Slow-cooked, tough to chew at first, but once it digests, you’ve got the protein to build an empire.
But people don’t want steak. Steak takes time. They want another sugar hit. Another dopamine fix. That’s why recursion gets ignored. It’s too real, too deep, too merciless for the microwave-mindset crowd.
Here’s the punchline: AI isn’t going to destroy your business. Ignorance will. And ignorance is just you refusing to see the engine while you’re polishing the hood.
Recursion multiplies whatever you feed it. Feed it hype? You get a hype bubble that pops. Feed it credibility, trust, visibility? You get a system that compounds until you’re untouchable.
Boards, governments, Fortune 500 leaders—they don’t call me because I’ve got a cooler prompt library than their interns. They call me because I build recursive authority systems. Machines where every stage appearance, every book, every media feature loops back into a trust engine. That’s not noise. That’s inevitability.
And the funny part? Most people will keep ignoring it. They’ll chase prompts, apps, hacks. They’ll polish the paint on a car with no damn engine. Then they’ll wonder why they never made it out of the driveway.
So let me make it simple: Recursion isn’t the trick. It’s the whole show. The few who get it will own the board. Everyone else? Just pawns arguing about the color of their square.
Most of you will laugh this off. A handful of you will act. And those few will stop competing altogether—because once recursion compounds, you don’t fight for relevance. You become the gravity everyone else orbits.
And that’s the part nobody wants to hear: recursion isn’t just merciless. It’s final.