NON-FICTION
Note to the Haters
All art is stolen.
The Attention Auction
Agency isn't gone. It's just expensive. Choosing where to aim the spotlight costs friction.
The Seduction
The seduction didn’t arrive in a Lamborghini. It arrived in a push notification at 2:14 a.m. “Congratulations! You may be eligible for up to $187,000 in untapped equity.”
The Optimized World Is Breaking:
We can continue to optimize for “Yield”—the short-term growth and engagement metrics that favor the trillionaire class and the “NGO symbionts”—or we can shift to “Capacity”—the resilience, legitimacy, and slack required for a civilization to endure.
The New Kid in Town
Is kinda geeky. AI isn’t evil, it’s just a natural-born bullshitter. Smooth delivery, airtight confidence, zero guilt.
The Velvet Divorce: How Europe Fell Out of Love With Itself
The European Union, once a temple to postwar consensus, now looks more like a startup burning through its Series Z funding while its founders argue over the mission statement.
Desire Just Reloads
Because desire reloads. That’s not the malfunction. That’s the engine. A desire that satisfied completely would stop, and a man whose desire stopped would be a corpse with good circulation.
Bounded Surprise
When surprise is treated as a resource to be maximized rather than a signal to be calibrated, the mechanism of meaning erodes.
Indra’s Net and ChatGPT
There’s an old image from Buddhist philosophy that feels strangely modern — Indra’s Net. Imagine the universe as an infinite web, each knot holding a jewel, and every jewel reflecting every other.