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I write about what digital systems erase when they optimize for flow, prediction, and completion. The email gets new essays, field notes, and working models out first.
A few times a month. No filler.
What you get
Essays
Arguments about how AI, feeds, and ranking systems quietly shape reality, and where friction belongs when you want people to remain more than compliant users.
Field notes
Observations on product patterns, interface decisions, and the hidden logic that makes systems easier to obey than to question.
Working models
Frameworks, reading paths, and tools for making systems more legible, answerable, and humanly steerable.
This is for
- AI builders who need a serious account of oversight, authorship, and where assistants should stop and ask.
- Product and design people who care about recourse, contestability, and the point where interface decisions become power.
- Readers who want a better language for digital life than convenience, optimization, and vibes.
Start with these
Maybe the Best AI is a Lazy AI
Humanity in the Loop
Your Thumb Is Not Your Mind
When Ranking Becomes Culture
Temporal Dignity
Friction Dynamics Model
Write to Max
if you want to talk directly.