Why people still protest Jacinda Ardern
What happens when our lives are shaped by systems we can't vote out
Archive
Everything I've written, newest first.
566 essays
Make friction cool again
Why speed is overrated and thinking is under threat
Cognitive Sovereignty Playbook
Ten practical ways to defend your mental territory
Notes from the edge of sanity
A Friday Flurry on thinking, reading, dancing, and change. Feat cute cat.
Society
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The kids are all right
Dunking on grumpy Boomers, broken systems, and under-regulated techno-evangelism. Nodding to young people as they laugh their way to the group chat.
Opinionated workshop recording
In this workshop, participants interrogated and upgraded their opinions.
What if you’re a character in someone else's story?
What The Slap can teach us about our opinions.
Opinionated Toolkit
Practical resources to interrogate and improve your opinions
This client was a car crash
Also there was an actual car crash
Agents of Humanity Draft White Paper
Human Skills for a Second Enlightenment
Thinking
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From custom to conscience: calling bullshit on old thinking
Premarital sex, power literacy, chocolate cake: in. Class structures, outdated morality, fruit cake: out.
How AI will enshittify - and what you can do about it.
The value added by any technology product tends to erode. In the absence of regulation, here's a practical resistance strategy to protect yourself.