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Every Optimization Creates a New Blind Spot
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.
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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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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.
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Digital Ghosts: The Long, Cynical History of Data Protection
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.