The Projection We Call Love
We don't love people. We love our ideas of them. The question is whether we're willing to keep revising.
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The Slow Disaster as Dominant Form
Our institutions are optimized for emergencies that announce themselves—the earthquake, the attack, the market crash. Events that cross a threshold, trigger detection, demand response. The UN Security Council convenes. States of emergency get declared.
But the dominant disaster form of our era never crosses that threshold. Each day is
The Inheritance Trap
Institutions conflate founding consent with current performance. When present-tense questions receive past-tense answers, you've found the category error.
In Season
What if nothing is wrong? What if you're just in winter? The dormancy isn't debt—it's just a phase making the next one possible.
The Half-Word We Lost
We kept the accidents. We lost the sagacity.
The Micro-Season Permission
What if nothing is wrong? What if you're just in winter?
Build Once
When work happens in conversation, the documentation already exists. You just have to keep it. The question shifts from "did you document this?" to "is your conversation findable?"