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The Obsession With Measurement
Why we measure everything and why it's not always a good thing.
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Vision is the Only Scarce Resource: What We Actually Need to Protect
After dismantling the myth of originality for four episodes, it’s time for the punchline: creativity isn’t under threat. Our ability to distinguish a vision from its imitation is.
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Stop Making it Easy: The Case for Engineering Friction
We've turned "frictionless" into a religion. But a system with zero resistance is just a system waiting to slide off a cliff. Maybe we've accidentally engineered our own stupidity.
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The Algorithm Behind the Melody: Music Was Always Code — We Just Didn't Have the Debugger
When the comedy group Axis of Awesome performs their famous "4 Chords" medley, the audience usually goes through two distinct phases.
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Art is Just a Very Slow Renderer: Why Art History is a Low-FPS GPU Benchmark
If we strip away the romantic fluff, art history is nothing more than the evolution of computer graphics—just stretched over thousands of years because the hardware was garbage.
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The Myth of the Blank Page: Why We Fear AI for Doing Exactly What We Do
We are terrified that AI is blindly recombining data. But between Jung’s archetypes and Campbell’s monomyth, we might just be scared that it’s doing exactly what we do—only faster.