Essays & notes
A place to
think things through.
On technology, power, culture, and the choices we make.
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The Architecture of Consent: Are We Building the Pyramid by Choice?
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The Illusion of Freedom in the Age of Total Connectivity
Choice and agency in a world of engineered attention.
The Illusion of Inevitability: From the Farm to the Frontline
The distance between AI promises and algorithmic war.
Reclaiming Will: The Decent Human Strategy
Staying human when work is reshaped by AI.
The Age of the Oracles: When Truth Has a PR Team
Who shapes truth when AI supplies the answers?
Signals from the Frontier: Why Silicon Valley is No Longer the Only Center of Gravity
AI’s shifting geography, beyond Silicon Valley.
The Hybrid Battlefield: When Algorithms Join the Frontlines
How drones, data, and disinformation reshape conflict.