i found myself oddly inspired by something I do not fully agree with. this piece is about that tension, and about a bigger idea underneath it: a lot of us are not stuck because we lack insight, we are stuck because we are scared to look stupid

I wrote about why "social = media bad" is too shallow. The deeper problem might be the hardware itself. The phone trains passivity before any app even opens, and culture has been living downstream of that for years. Also, why I still have hopium for new hardware and the feeling that something might shift.

the world is reorganising around four chokepoints: intelligence, money, energy, and infrastructure. whoever owns the chokepoint owns the person downstream of it. the bet is that each can be loosened. NOT abolished. loosened.