The spine of the corpus
The same forces are reshaping every industry at once
A hundred deep explorations across twenty sectors keep surfacing the same handful of structures. These are the cross-sector patterns — the conclusions that no single exploration contains, drawn from the way they connect. Each links down to the explorations and companies that evidence it.
Pattern
The Chokepoint Concentration Pattern
From TSMC and ASML to the Strait of Hormuz, the Bloomberg Terminal, and the CUDA software stack, the same structural dynamic recurs: one company or one place becomes the irreplaceable waist that everything must pass through.
Pattern
The Flywheel Architecture as Universal Moat
Shein's demand-signal loop, the AI labs' compute-capital loop, Amazon's robotics loop, Bloomberg's lock-in, BYD's vertical integration, Tesla's data loop — the same flywheel mechanism appears in six sectors and predicts who weathers a shock.
Pattern
Collective Action Failure as Governance Meta-Pattern
The highest-weight node in the entire corpus. Not a climate story but a master template: discount rates and diffuse costs destroy cooperation whenever the beneficiary of defection is concentrated and now, and the cost of defection is spread out and later.
Pattern
The K-Shape as Universal Market Outcome
K-shaped consumer bifurcation, fashion trifurcation, the labor-market hourglass, the foundation-model squeeze — the same polarization dynamic recurs wherever technology meets human demand, and it is the structural output of automation, not a sector quirk.