Colin Steele

Recent Posts

• Corporate Politics: The Cockroach of Capitalism December 26, 2025

  As automation commoditizes execution and cognition, the most durable form of human labor is not leadership or knowledge work, but illegible, risk-bearing, political coordination. An essay on why corporate politics survives every technological wave.

• Vermin, Terriers and Transformers December 13, 2025

  If $500 drones can destroy the power grid (or an aircraft carrier), million-dollar missiles aren't a defense strategy. They're bankruptcy. A look at the 'Vermin' problem and why we need an immune system for critical infrastructure.

• Paul Graham Can Kiss My App November 4, 2025

  Why I'm intentionally building Taleway wrong (no accounts, no UI, no engagement metrics) and why that might be exactly right for 2025

• Build Bridges, Not Moats October 31, 2025

  Prognistication and contemplation of the nature of sustainable competition, circa 2025

• Invictus by William Ernest Henley October 30, 2025

  I am the captain of my soul