NON-FICTION
The Attention Auction
Agency isn't gone. It's just expensive. Choosing where to aim the spotlight costs friction.
The Seduction
The seduction didn’t arrive in a Lamborghini. It arrived in a push notification at 2:14 a.m. “Congratulations! You may be eligible for up to $187,000 in untapped equity.”
The Optimized World Is Breaking:
We can continue to optimize for “Yield”—the short-term growth and engagement metrics that favor the trillionaire class and the “NGO symbionts”—or we can shift to “Capacity”—the resilience, legitimacy, and slack required for a civilization to endure.
Flamingo Update
the question is whether Albania’s institutions serve the public or a rotating cast of foreign oligarchs and their local enablers. The pink flamingo stands as a symbol of refusal
The New Kid in Town
AI isn’t evil, it’s just a natural-born bullshitter. Smooth delivery, airtight confidence, zero guilt.
The Velvet Divorce: How Europe Fell Out of Love With Itself
Europe is playing a discordant symphony these days—half funeral dirge, half punk rock opera—with bureaucrats clinging to their librettos while the band in the pit sets fire to the sheet music. Interna
Optimization
Every age believes it wrestles with moral crisis. Ours is wrestling with a mathematical one.
Indra’s Net and ChatGPT
There’s an old image from Buddhist philosophy that feels strangely modern — Indra’s Net. Imagine the universe as an infinite web, each knot holding a jewel, and every jewel reflecting every other.
After the War
From Dollar Store ramen to Michelin stars. Signed the contracts, signed the divorce papers, performed the human repertoire. I did the performance nobody claps for, dragging every ugly, frightened, pompous, wounded piece of me onto the stage and making them take a bow too. Kept it there until the whole cast could stand there without a knife fight.