Jun 12
The Formula Won
A speculative artifact about data and football, read back thirteen years later.
6 min read
Scott Smith
Futurist, writer, explicador.
Jun 08
Civilisation Holds the Bag
Sold to the people betting against it.
2 min read
Jun 05
Afternotes 01: AI, Work and the Ladder to Nowhere
An experiment in stereo opinion. For subscribers only.
1 min read
May 16
Murder Walls and Case Files
Essay: Divergence and convergence in the sensemaking process.
3 min read
May 13
Risk-Maxxing on Slate Money
Podcast: Talking with Felix Salmon about risk and trickle-down eschatologies.
1 min read
May 07
The Ratchet
Part 5: Why risk-maxxing doesn't reverse.
2 min read
Apr 23
Trickle-Down Eschatology
Part 4: The urgency flows down, but the safety net doesn't.
6 min read
Apr 05
Landbros and Spinoff Sects
America runs on revelation
2 min read
Dec 27
Risk-maxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
Part 3: Risk-maxxing as a generational trap.
10 min read
Dec 14
Living in Someone Else's Bet
Part 2: Risk-maxxing from an NPC's point of view.
4 min read
Aug 13
Bunker Mentality
Sven Holm's spare vision of privilege at the end times.
3 min read
Jul 04
The Era of Risk-Maxxing
Part 1: Power chooses chaos over caution in unstable times
8 min read