The tools removed the resistance that used to tie us to what we build. Nobody is going to give it back, so the craft now has to be chosen, and part of that choice is not ours to make.

Me rambling on to understand my own reasons to write.

This post responds to the fifty questions posed by Richard Gingras at the Newsgeist Unconference in Hamburg, Germany. He chairs the board of Village Media and is a co-founder and board member of the…

TL;DR: Dropping razor blades down a wall cavity and letting autonomous agents merge uninspected code share the same fantasy: that unobserved spaces have no consequences. Adulthood is realizing…

If I automatically disagree with the crowd, am I really thinking for myself? A reflection on contrarian identity and the freedom to listen.

"Retirement starts when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow." — Naval Ravikant I used to think retirement was a date. A number in a spreadsheet, a finish line you cross and then…

When do we determine when to speak up and when to let sleeping dogs lie? When is it itching for an argument? And when is dealing with conflict honestly and productively?

language has become a collective hallucination in which consumption has become the dominant mode of production. this has rendered language more or less meaningless. we live in a world where there is…

A lot is happening these days that makes my book The World After Capital more relevant than ever. My central argument is that digital technology, with AI as its apotheosis, is so powerful that it…

Optimism makes us perpetual enemies of those future moments that do not meet our expectations, which means all future moments. It is when we expect nothing from the future that we are free to…

I should declare a bias before I start. I grew up in regional Austria surrounded by agricultural co-operatives. The Lagerhaus sold the seed, the fertiliser and the diesel. The dairy co-op collected…

Sometimes I wonder whether the universe really goes on forever, or whether, somewhere out there, beyond everything we have ever seen or could ever hope to understand, there might be an end. We tend…

I’ve had many memorable conversations in pubs, and about pubs, and one particular such exchange from a few years back still stands out. I’d been arguing the case that JD Wetherspoon was a social…

Isaac Correa's manifesto, October 2026: anyone can now build, copy or replace software, so code no longer protects a company; what is left is well-structured data, complex solutions and relationships.

I was thinking about curiosity the other day, so now you have to suffer through my rambling thoughts. What brought it to mind was a couple of conversations I’ve had with people recently, where…

17 years ago I led one of my first residential singing weekends. The theme was the Beach Boys. Beach Boys singing weekend, September 2009, Farncombe Estate The other weekend, I was in Derbyshire…

🌱 The Ultimate Ultimatum: What Happens When We Refuse to “Choose Life”? 🔗 Every major philosophical and religious system eventually forces us to confront a fundamental fork in the road:…

It's common knowledge that we have become inured to images of violence, from documentary footage, to Tik Tok, to Hollywood cinema. Only a fool would contest that. But what then happens when we no…

By FARHA GUERRERO I received these questions from a fellow writer in response to my morning's blog post titled The Enduring Imaginative Life . He writes: “Interesting. So, for you, does the story…

Your values are not a discovery. They are sitting in decisions you made years ago.

Peacemaking is an odd task: while everyone wants peace on the terms they imagine it, generally there is also some matter of justice or fairness behind a conflict. Who would accept peace at the price…

I’ve been thinking about this comment on and off since reading it months ago:“The entire problem of search is that the user has the wrong data and wants to use it to receive the correct data.”– User…

Cosmetologist or Astrologer? All Their Kosmos Dear Magicians, A TV host once introduced me on air as “an experimental… I want to say cosmetologist.” He caught himself and fixed it. I told him…

I think we all have diff ways of reconciling with the wretchedness of the world And I'm the kind of shameless egoist that thinks there should be a balance between respecting yourself and not yielding…

A day can be efficient and still miss the people in it. Being present costs a little slack.

For years, I've been following disparate things: smart glasses, artificial intelligence, the metaverse. And yet, the world today looks strikingly similar to the world of yesterday.

My spouse recently ended up with two left toe socks and no way to wear them, because each one had lost the only sock that matched it. My drawer, and now our kids' drawers, cannot have that problem:…

I have been thinking about computer science. What it is, where it comes from, and what remains when you start taking it apart. It may sound like an odd thing to wonder about for someone who has spent…

Unrealized potential isn't inert — it accrues a carrying cost, and the most expensive position is not failure but sustained non-reckoning with what you chose not to do.

When an authentic want is too costly to pursue, desire substitutes a proxy that works at first — then doesn't, because the original want never actually closes.

Gods used to be things we prayed to, in exchange for favorable weather, relationship, or politics. Now we are actively building one, the final one.

Between what happens and how we react, there's a gap. What if it's not a place to choose, but to rest?

To share fear is the greatest bond of all. The hunter must become the thing he hunts. What is, is now, must have the quivering intensity of an arrow thudding into a tree. Yesterday is dim and…

The Hand on the Shoulder Oct 19, 2026 During the arati, when the dhak gets loud enough to move the floor under the folding chairs, a boy of about six broke away from his mother and ran the length of…

The heaven I imagine, and the questions I will never stop asking. Oh, how I wish I could wake up naturally every morning, and have time for the things I wish to do. Today, I had an extraordinary need…

There is a particular kind of optimism that comes with downloading something from the internet. You find an image you like, stumble across a video that catches your attention, or discover a…

A few weeks ago, the odometer on my car rolled over 66,666 miles. This got me thinking. For purely aesthetic reasons, this struck me as a (admittedly not significantly) memorable moment for my car’s…

i miss talking about death. partially because it is scientifically and spiritually fascinating to me of course - and it being a special interest of mine obviously helps - but i miss talking about…

Person A's stance is that disagreements happen. They seem unbothered. Person B frames the disagreement--amplified by the fact that it apparently means so little to Person A--as disrespect and…

Description In a capitalist world on the brink of climate collapse, the fragility of the infrastructure we rely on becomes more and more apparent, at different levels. In particular, the digital…

I'd like to coin a term: smart person derangement.There are people who are very smart. Sometimes they're smart in a specific field or they are just generally pretty damn intelligent. Either…

I thought I was good at solving problems. Then I noticed what I was trying to solve.

Hank Green in a video about Theranos:We should not be complacent about the ways in which our world sucks. But if we're convinced that everything sucks and it's because people are terrible…

On shared ambition, mastery, and making room for people to contribute something meaningful to the world.

I can see what you built. I asked what you kept.

A history of how I have evaded my own privacy on the internet, and maybe some of my sense of self as well.

Using a request for proposals (expired) as an excuse to riff on an interesting concept.

I had trouble listening even though I was hearing