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          <title>04 – Silent Alarms</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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…]]></description>

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          <title>AI in my Inkwell</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[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…]]></description>

          
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          <title>03 &#8211; Transmission</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[A state that outsources all production while another dedicates itself entirely to resource extraction creates a fatal, co-dependent fragility. Interdependency cannot thrive through specialisation, but from the harmonisation of all essential functions within the whole. An economy that cannot both feed and protect itself is not an economy at all, but a client state waiting for its patron to fail. —Naomi Feld, Interdependency: A…]]></description>

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          <title>The Kind of Readers I&#8217;m Hoping to Find</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[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…]]></description>

          
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          <title>02 &#8211; Alone</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[The greatest threat to a harmonious system is not open rebellion, but private misalignment. A citizen may continue to perform their assigned function, speak the approved language, and move within the prescribed channels, yet still become destabilising if they permit grief, suspicion, or personal dissatisfaction to supersede trust in the whole. Systemic failure begins as a minor divergence in perception long before it manifests…]]></description>

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          <title>On Releasing This Novel for Free, One Chapter at a Time</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been having so much fun and frustration writing A Frictionless State, including many nights when I couldn&#8217;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:…]]></description>

          
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          <title>A Frictionless State</title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Truth is a contagion. —Francis Herbert, A Frictionless State In 2074, Ari Feld, a technician who trusts systems more than people, finds evidence suggesting that the pandemic may have been engineered. What begins as private suspicion widens into something far more dangerous—a struggle over truth, concealment, and control inside a governing order that preserves peace through constraint, interdependence, and managed truth. As Ari follows…]]></description>

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          <title>Why I Chose this Story as My First Novel</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[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…]]></description>

          
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          <title>01 &#8211; Disconnected</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[The primary failing of the 20th and early 21st century economic models was their obsession with growth over equilibrium. They produced more than any in history, yet this very abundance was the engine of its chaos. When one economic actor possesses a gross surplus while another suffers a structural deficit, the system is primed not for trade, but for conflict. The only path to…]]></description>

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