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What's changed around here lately.
Collision Detector
Writing, reviews and interviews by Scott Smith and guests.
Latest posts
New Hills to Die On
Early thoughts on the politics of protocol communities. Part 1.
Temporarily Embarrassed Trillionaires
When the world is all ceiling, no floor
The Formula Won
A speculative artifact about data and football, read back thirteen years later.
Civilization Holds the Bag
Sold to the people betting against it.
Murder Walls and Case Files
Divergence and convergence in the sensemaking process.
The Ratchet
Part 5: Why risk-maxxing doesn't reverse.
Trickle-Down Eschatology
Part 4: The urgency flows down, but the safety net doesn't.
Risk-maxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
Part 3: Risk-maxxing as a generational trap.
Living in Someone Else's Bet
Part 2: Risk-maxxing from an NPC's point of view.
The Era of Risk-Maxxing
Part 1: Power chooses chaos over caution in unstable times
Doing Nothing Isn't a Strategy
Strategic thinking shrinks as the future accelerates