Month: November 2022
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Scaling Is a Problem. Downscaling Is a Wicked Problem.
Scaling is easy. Just throw more hardware at it, more bodies, more capital, more hype. Pump it up, stack it high, run the numbers until they glow. A startup becomes a unicorn, a unicorn becomes a monopoly, and suddenly the market’s a game of Monopoly where one guy owns all the hotels and everyone else…
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The SV Ouroboros: Eating Its Own Future
Ah, the glittering contradictions of Silicon Valley, where the titans of “innovation” hold the steering wheel with one hand and strangle competition with the other. The ecosystem of disruption is now an ant farm encased in venture-backed resin. We’re engineering a conflict to kickstart a future that will take us forward 75 years into the…
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ZIRP Personality
What If Your Whole Personality Depended on Low Interest Rates? Worse—what if your entire social circle, your ideological shtick, your sense of meaning, was just a byproduct of a SoftBank write-down? That’s the uncomfortable reality a lot of people are facing right now. We’ve spent the last decade living inside a simulation powered by cheap…
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Elon’s Reverse Von Braun
Elon Musk is a living prototype of the reverse Von Braun, a man who started with rockets and electric cars and ended up in the ideological trenches, slowly backpedaling into the past like a man moonwalking into a burning building. Von Braun had the good sense to launder himself through history’s acceptable filters. He started…
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Wordcel vs Shape Rotators
The problem with the wordcel-shape rotator class is that it’s an ecosystem without an outside. A self-licking ice cream cone of credentialed cognition. They write white papers for each other, render graphs no one else reads, optimize logistics for the next iteration of optimizing logistics. But here’s the catch—markets require consumers. They require a churning…