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Rant 18 May 2026
Bridging the gap is the new layoff
Companies offloaded the work of doing business onto the customer, called it AI transformation, and the market rewarded the move. The metric that would catch it is the one nobody is tracking.
7 min read
Things I Love 18 May 2026
Buy things that get better
A note on a veg-tanned leather sleeve worth owning, and an argument for the small class of objects that improve under use.
3 min read
Fringe Tech 18 May 2026
The boring mechanism, the surprising result
Stochastic parrot or emerging mind, both clichés are wrong in opposite directions. What language models actually do is more interesting, and the implication for human work is the part nobody wants to say out loud.
6 min read
Philosophy 18 May 2026
Stoicism is not the philosophy you think it is
The contemporary stoic keeps the calm and loses the intervention. Paired with pragmatism, the original philosophy comes back as something that can actually steer a life.
4 min read
Satire 17 May 2026
A field guide to the LinkedIn AI prophet
The genre opens with insomnia, peaks with a pedestrian prompt, and closes with What do YOU think. A taxonomy of the AI thought leadership post, and why the algorithm keeps rewarding it.
3 min read
Essay 16 May 2026
Baphomet was never a devil
A figure invented by a French occultist as a symbol of synthesis, weaponized for satanic panic, then flattened into shorthand for edginess. The actual story is more interesting than any of those uses.
3 min read