Field Notes4 min read
The Human Bottleneck
A 2026 follow-up to Changing Culture: AI media, layoffs, provenance, and the cold question every institution now has to answer — what are humans for inside this system?
culture
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Information Beings5 min read
When Submission Loses Its Spiritual Meaning
Every system rests on a covenant: I serve, because this service participates in something higher. When that belief collapses, obedience becomes performance. From 18th-century rice fields to modern Slack threads, the pattern repeats—and the consequences are always the same.
Information Beings8 min read
Stay vs Live: How Verb Choice Reveals Cultural Maps of Rootedness
A chance encounter with someone saying "I stay in Lagos" revealed how substrate languages shape English differently, creating windows into how cultures imagine permanence, place, and belonging.
