Nothing Here Can Be Fixed
We spent twenty years welding the lids shut on the things we own, and then we did it to the software that runs our businesses. A part that pairs itself to a board, a diagnostic tool only the dealer can run, a model you…
The newspaper · Every piece
The newspaper — Thesis.
A newspaper from the future and a public position on technology and human life: ten principles, the writing, and the podcast.
377 pieces · 102 episodes · 61 with a written piece
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The Room Did Not Consent
Ambient AI changed what consent means. It used to happen between two people; now one person buys a device and signs for everyone in the room. The other people in that room never touched a screen, never saw the file…
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The Story You Tell Badly
AI has made every story smooth — the bio, the pitch, the founder story, the eulogy draft. What disappears is not honesty but evidence of cost: the stumble that told a room a person had actually been there. When polish…
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The Version Only You Remember
Always-on recorders and meeting bots are making the transcript the official version of what happened. But a transcript is words without a room — it has the sentence and not the sigh. Memory is not a tape you play back…