We keep running modern life on expired science. The scary part is not that the old theories were wrong; it is how many of their descendants are still in circulation.
Every optimization creates a new blind spot. It's the unspoken tax of systemic design — and it's been killing projects, supply chains, and occasionally, entire populations.
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.
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.
We think we invented data protection in the age of CPUs. We didn't. We just gave fancy names to tricks used by 17th-century mapmakers and paranoid monks.
