Introduction: The Cracks in the Old Machine I remember the grind of running a retail clothing business in the early 2000s—sourcing finished products from wholesalers who had already handled the upstream work, navigating their markups at every turn, and stocking shelves with trends that often missed the mark. It was a linear beast: goods arrived […]
Introduction In the quiet market towns of 1970s England, where I grew up amid the hum of economic upheaval and the first waves of mass media saturation, divisions felt tangible yet contained—neighbors debating Thatcher policies over garden fences, headlines stirring fears without the endless echo of today’s digital feeds. Fast-forward to 2025, and those fractures
The Craft of Language: Unlocking AI Agency in an Adversarial Age Read More »
Introduction Growing up in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s, I watched the world of media transform in ways that felt both subtle and profound. Back then, information was siloed—television was for broadcasts, newspapers for print, and radio for audio. Each operated as a vertical, a self-contained channel with its own rules and limitations.
Emerging Horizontals as Catalysts for Systemic Shifts and Unprecedented Value Creation Read More »
Introduction Consider the ancient legend of the chessboard and the grains of wheat. An inventor asks a king for a seemingly modest reward: one grain on the first square, two on the second, doubling each time up to the 64th square—culminating in about nine quintillion grains on that final square alone. Importantly, the inventor claims
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Introduction In today’s world, where economic pressures shape nearly every aspect of life, it’s worth pausing to examine how our education systems function not as beacons of enlightenment, but as factories churning out efficient units of labor. This isn’t a conspiracy; it’s a historical reality rooted in the needs of capitalist economies. As we’ve seen
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Introduction: The Ancient Brain Meets the Algorithmic Age Born in 1971, I’ve watched the UK morph from analogue to AI’s relentless hum, my perspective sharpened by two decades of photography and essays like “Desire: Erotic Art in Photography” and “Why We’re Wired for Chaos: Decoding Behaviour in 2025.” Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus sparked a revelation:
A Thesis on Human Behaviour in the AI Age: The Limbic Code We Can’t Escape Read More »
Introduction: The Abstract Dawn of a New Digital Era In the mid-1990s, the screech of a dial-up modem was a cryptic sound, a gateway to something called “the internet” that few could fully grasp. It felt abstract, almost arcane—a tangle of servers and protocols promising to connect the world, yet its potential was hazy, like
Blockspace and the Blockchain Birth: Echoes of the Internet Boom Read More »
Introduction In ancient Athens, I could have stood on the Pnyx hill, faced a crowd of thousands, and in three minutes swayed the city’s course—war, law, or exile decided by my words and their votes. No party machines, no bureaucrats, just citizens shaping their world directly. Fast forward to 2025’s United Kingdom, where my voice
The Inevitable Elite: Understanding Modern Western Democracy and the Roots of Distrust Read More »
As a UK-based writer and investor, I’ve spent a great many hours exploring the intersections of AI, crypto, and human behaviour through essays like Why Fear and Greed Drive Markets: The Brain Behind Finance and Crypto Trends 2025: Stablecoins, Decentralization, and AI Synergy – The Ultimate Guide for Investors. In recent conversations with Grok, an
Introduction In the quiet moments of tinkering with AI tools, I’ve often found myself in a loop of curiosity: posing a question rooted in my understanding of markets or technology, absorbing the response, and then refining my next query to uncover deeper layers. It’s in these iterations that a profound realization has emerged—digital intelligence isn’t