The Tangible Cost of Dead Miles
Two platforms, nearly identical daily gross income — and completely different economics once you look beneath the surface. What gig workers measure and what they should measure are rarely the same thing.
Sociology & Politics
Institutions, politics, law and collective behaviour — who sets the rules and how they govern us.
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RSS feedThe Contract Nobody Signed
Every institution that claims to serve the public is invoking an obligation it never formally accepted. This essay examines the implied social contract — the unwritten expectations that hold society together, how they are systematically hollowed out, and why the violation is so difficult to name.
Secured Debt, What Is It?
Not all debt is created equal. The difference between secured and unsecured debt determines what a lender can take from you when things go wrong — and most people don't think about it until it's too late.
The Benchmark Must Bleed
The price governing trillions in crypto derivatives liquidations and settlement is not derived from assets changing hands — it is derived from quotes. This is a proposal to replace the benchmark with one anchored to on-chain settlement, where the only way to move the price is to actually trade.
The House of Borrowed Time
"The property market has not been growing — it has been deferring. A prosecutorial essay on how debt props up prices, rent strips incomes, and the UK's illiquid conveyancing system quietly extends the default."
The World Beyond Our Models
An essay on why contemplation matters in an age of metrics—how models, measurements, and proxies shape what we believe, and why humility, calibration, and discernment are prerequisites for progress.
The Ethics of Synthetic Presence
When a voice can be generated on demand, presence becomes an output—and trust becomes a commons to protect. An essay on the Cartesian “I,” the inner monologue, and what it means to sound human.
The Logistics of Civilisation
A meditation on how water, trade routes, and the physics of movement shaped where cities formed—and how the human body itself quietly authored the logic of streets, corridors, and built space.
The Prime Effect
Modern businesses don’t just sell products—they build systems. From cross-subsidy and loss leaders to subscriptions like Prime, profitability is increasingly engineered across an ecosystem, over time, by shaping habit and default choice.
Hacking, Exploits, and the Hidden Bazaar of Power
An exploration of how hacking and exploit markets serve not only criminals but also governments, intelligence institutions, and security companies that quietly purchase and weaponise systemic insecurity.