Your Daily Gist — March 1, 2026

Welcome to Daily Gist — your newsletters, distilled into conversation! From tulip bulbs to JPEGs, from bad moods to bad design processes — today we're asking the same question across every story: what happens when we mistake hype for reality, and habit for wisdom? Okay, that's a lot to unpack. Tulip bulbs and bad moods in the same sentence — what's the through line here? The through line is that we keep running on autopilot — in markets, in design,