Posts tagged #political-economy

12 posts

• Dumb and Dumber August 16, 2026

  In the last decade and a half, Engagement feeds have crushed your ability to think. Now AI shows up selling a replacement. Your slop-rage is righteous, but misaimed. One sentence of legislation fixes this. Probably won't happen.

• I Am Often Wrong June 5, 2026

  In January I made a prediction about gene editing. Five months later it broke. I got the right street but the wrong address.

• The Paleozoic Era of Agentic Frameworks February 28, 2026

  99.99% of agentic frameworks are evolutionary dead ends. The Permian extinction is coming.

• Lightning Talks Part I February 18, 2026

  A collection of deliberate bear poking.

• The Horse Job Cope February 7, 2026

  Technology has always created more jobs than it destroys. That has been correct for two hundred years. It is about to stop being correct.

• Margin Play January 29, 2026

  The same optimization that turned feeds into dopamine casinos is now operating on AI assistants.

• The Last Levee January 29, 2026

  'Massively polygenic' was our security blanket against designer humans. AlphaGenome just pulled it off. The only levee left is ethics. Don't laugh.

• Story Time for CXOs January 24, 2026

  Meetings replaced memos the same way the feed replaced thinking. Same thermodynamic disease, different host.

• Petty Gods January 15, 2026

  The accelerationists expect the Rapture. The doomers expect Ragnarok. Both are fairy tales. What actually arrives is worse: narrow superintelligences that solve everything except the thing that matters.

• Island of Misfit Startups: Part I (LensReader) January 12, 2026

  Algorithmic feeds are bad for your brain. This startup is vitamins for your brain.

• Cargo Cult Civilization January 9, 2026

  Your attention-algorithm feed isn't corrupting you. It's completing a transaction your biology was always ready to make. And a population optimized for minimum cognitive expenditure is maximally controllable.

• 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.