society

  • The Adult in the Room

    An introduction to Managerial Realism. (Or, me and my AI buddy take over the world.) American politics has long been trapped in a perpetual, exhausting domestic dispute. On one side of the aisle stands a faction obsessed with market purity… Continue reading

    The Adult in the Room
  • The Unspoken Hand-off

    Blindly tripping through decline. In millions of living rooms across America today, a quiet, grueling crisis is playing out. It usually begins with a missed medication, an unkept yard, or a subtle, disturbing shift in a parent’s ability to manage… Continue reading

    The Unspoken Hand-off
  • Base Personality

    The evolution cycle of a single generation. Human existence unfolds through an internal friction between fixed identity and external realities. Over the course of a single lifetime, we undergo a personal evolution cycle—a trajectory that begins with a rigid foundational… Continue reading

    Base Personality
  • Evolutions and Scale

    Comparing the evolution of different levels of individuality with computers, factories, and AI. The concept of human evolution is often framed through a purely biological lens, of random genetic shifts slowly filtered by environmental pressures over millennia. Yet, human progress… Continue reading

    Evolutions and Scale
  • No Coincidences

    Adapting a new, more effective democracy. The fusion of governance and media is an undeniable historical reality, yet our perspective remains clouded by a lack of modern context. We are currently witnessing a catastrophic misalignment: our democratic institutions, forged in… Continue reading

  • Boxed In

    Exploring what the new world has to show us. I have lived alone in the wilderness, and I have lived elbow to elbow in big cities. From these experiences I have long held that it is easier to be lonely… Continue reading