Posts tagged #political-economy

4 posts

• 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.