Exploring the overlap between code and reason

We asked for freedom and got an algorithm instead Streaming changed everything, or so we’re told. No more schedules, no more waiting, no more gatekeepers. Just open your favorite platform and the world is yours, one autoplay episode at…

Welcome to the era of self-sabotage Somewhere along the way, Europe stopped dreaming. Not suddenly, not loudly, but gradually, silently, and with bureaucratic elegance. As the United States shaped the internet, and China laid the groundwork for AI dominance,…

Welcome to the age of financial fiction We live in an age where the richest people in history don’t actually own the money they spend. Billionaires acquire mansions, jets, yachts, even entire companies, not by dipping into a savings…

Introduction: a world beyond the familiar Fantasy, as a genre, has become saturated with a recurring cast: elves with bows, dwarves with axes, witches muttering incantations in candle-lit towers. While there's a nostalgic charm in revisiting these familiar archetypes, they…

After years of jumping between email clients, many of which have either disappeared, become bloated, or pivoted into something unrecognizable, I’ve decided to return to an old acquaintance: Thunderbird. Or more precisely, its better-behaved fork, Betterbird. Before I…

There’s a strange theater playing out on LinkedIn, a never-ending performance where everyone is an “innovative thought leader”, “visionary strategist”, or “transformational change agent”. Scroll long enough and you’ll begin to wonder if you’re the only one not running…