Please Don’t Optimize This Screen
Sacred interfaces and designing AI for moments too fragile to monetize.Hey guardians of fragile moments—Imagine this.It’s 23:41. Your chest feels tight. You finally got access to your medical portal and the test results you’ve been waiting for are there, staring at you from a screen.You click.The language is cold, technical, coded in acronyms. Somewhere between […]
Predictability as a Prison
How recommendation systems turned human curiosity into a closed loop.Hey culturonauts—Let’s slow this down. Because this story didn’t break all at once. It drifted into place, quietly, like a habit you don’t notice until it owns you.There was a moment — a very real one — when the internet felt expansive. Not because it offered […]
The Math of Staying Alive
Why the slow, the patient, and the disciplined outlast everyone else.Some companies outlive kingdoms. Others barely survive a product cycle.Somewhere between a medieval bell foundry and a modern cooperative supermarket lies a strange question: why do some businesses refuse to die?Is it bloodline? Purpose? Pure stubbornness? Who lasts longer — the dynasty that guards its […]
A Glass Plaque and the Death of Value
Why companies that trade ethics for efficiency always end up paying more.Hey builders of empires—Profit and value are often used as if they were twins. But they aren’t. Profit is what you count. Value is what counts. One fills a spreadsheet; the other fills the meaning of the work. The first can make you rich.The […]