Another Brave New World, Part 2 — We braced for Orwell's boot. The pacification arrived as convenience instead.

A universal income can replace the salary, not the twenty years of competence that earned it. Part 1 of the Another Brave New World series.

A note I posted recently about due process sparked a broader thought. I’ll come back to it at the end.

Tim Lee is right that hunches don't survive agentic handoffs. But a seasoned hunch is trustworthy because it has carried a consequence, which makes AI's limit a stake problem, not a context-window problem.

The cognitive toolkit is necessary. It is not sufficient. Here is what's missing.