17 Results in the "Uncategorized" category
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05 — Routed
People often confuse transparency with truth. They are not the same. No institution can function if it is forced to present every contradiction, every cost, and every unfinished decision all at once. Public trust depends as much on coherence as on disclosure. The question is not whether information is managed, but whether it is managed in service of the many or in service of private power. —Naomi Feld, The Collective Balance: An Introduction to Macro-Societal Utility Sleep came in thin increments,…-
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In 2000, I finished an MA in fiction writing at Johns Hopkins University and did the next most logical thing. I built a software company. The internet was new and exciting at that time, and I had a problem at my nonprofit marketing job that I knew the internet could solve. How do you connect people who care about the same causes and help…
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04 — Access Denied
Capitalist societies romanticise the individual who takes matters into their own hands. They call this initiative, or innovation. In fact, such an individual is interfering with a systemic solution and undermining confidence in a system's inherent reliability. A healthy society must depend on an implicit trust in its systemised responses, not sporadic personal intervention. It requires shared standards, coordinated response, and the confidence that no individual should solve a collective problem…-
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AI in my Inkwell
In the summer of 2025, I was advising founders at a business accelerator in Vancouver on how to incorporate AI into their companies and products. I had thoughts about workflow and the categories of use that were likely to produce real returns versus the ones that were mostly theatre. What I did not have was a personal use case. I had founded and sold…
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There is a kind of reader who reads fiction not to have their existing judgments confirmed but to test them. Someone willing to stay inside moral complexity long enough to understand it, rather than resolving it quickly into a verdict. If you’ve read N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season and felt unsettled for days, or read Frank Herbert’s Dune as a study in how power…
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I’d been having so much fun and frustration writing A Frictionless State, including many nights when I couldn’t stop writing in my head when I should have been sleeping. There was just one problem. I am an unknown novelist asking strangers to trust me with their time. How I addressed that challenge shaped everything about how I decided to publish. The traditional approach is:…
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It began as a screenplay called Utopia that I wrote in 1996 while studying screenwriting at Tel Aviv University—plot-heavy and built for momentum. Action and then some more action, and a villain who explains their scheme to the hero just before the climactic, you guessed it, action. For a student project, the screenplay was pretty creative. At the centre of it was a pandemic…
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