The Daily MiracleMay 6, 2026Dallas Liddle's history of Victorian newspapers shows how infrastructure colonises agency, the way accumulated dependencies quietly decide a roadmap.Writing
81,000 VoicesApril 28, 2026Anthropic asked 81,000 people in 159 countries about AI and found five tensions that cannot be resolved, plus one uncomfortable fact about the method.Writing
The RiverApril 13, 2026From ARPANET to Conway's law: organisations that build software are made of the same substance they produce, which is why factory logic never fits.Writing
The BeetleApril 5, 2026Wittgenstein imagined a box no one could open. Anthropic found 171 emotional patterns inside Claude, and left the hard problem exactly where it was.Writing
The BoltMarch 23, 2026Organisations want predictable, measurable work. That worked for bolts on an assembly line; software is not a bolt, and Taylor's methods still linger.Writing
The Auto-IconMarch 15, 2026AI in education promises to democratise knowledge by replicating teachers, confusing the transmission of information with the work of provoking though...Writing
The fallacyMarch 10, 2026Elliott Sober spent decades dismantling the belief that every human motive hides self-interest and that every good explanation has to be a simple one.Writing
Breaking tabletsFebruary 13, 2026Sumerian scribes broke thousands of tablets learning to write. The anxiety about wasting tokens misunderstands what inhabiting a new medium costs.Writing
The teaspoonFebruary 11, 2026A CERN physicist says compacted matter would fit in a teaspoon. Organisations are mostly emptiness too, and technology has been compacting it for year...Writing
How poverty fellFebruary 24, 2025A study of household data finds no single pathway out of poverty: most families that escaped it did so without changing how they earned a living.Writing
