Warrior vs Worrier: The difference between hope and proof
When your inner world runs on possibility and the people you love live in the land of proof, even the simplest conversation can become a negotiation. This is the quiet tension between the warrior who dreams and the worrier who carries the weight — and how masking, momentum, and misalignment turn everyday moments into behavioural crossroads.
Prompt Theatre: The Ethics of Drift
When visibility becomes validation, systems reward performance over purpose. The Ethics of Drift explores how automation, culture, and metrics reshape meaning — and how to reclaim authorship, balance, and intent in the age of generative AI.
It Works on My Machine: When Passion Becomes Possession
When passion narrows into possession, collaboration starts to feel like interference. This is how good intentions harden into certainty — and how certainty isolates us from the very systems we’re trying to improve.
Rejection-Sensitivity Dysphoria: The Pain of Perceived Rejection
Rejection-Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) describes extreme emotional pain triggered by perceived rejection or criticism, often linked to ADHD. It impacts confidence, relationships, and self-worth.
The Productivity Illusion of Modern Politics
We’ve built a politics of motion without movement — a system where communication has replaced governance, and performance has replaced progress. It’s time to make politics boring again.
Human-in-the-Loop Ethics: Keeping Humans Accountable
Human-in-the-loop (HITL) ethics keeps AI systems aligned with human values by maintaining human oversight and accountability while balancing efficiency, fairness, and trust in automation.
Radical Candour: Care Personally. Challenge Directly.
Radical Candour is a feedback framework that balances empathy with directness, helping leaders build trust and accountability by caring personally while challenging directly.
Legitimacy Theatre: When Systems Perform Progress
Systems that perform progress confuse complexity for competence. This article decodes how legitimacy becomes theatre — a choreography of mimicry, incentives, and selective attention that rewards motion over meaning.
Behavioural Design: Habits, Hooks, and the Ethics of Attention
Behavioural design uses psychology to shape user habits for good or ill. Nir Eyal’s Hook Model popularised it, but also raised ethical questions about autonomy, responsibility, and wellbeing.
Amplification vs Attenuation: The Architecture of the Attention Economy
In a world where communication outpaces comprehension, amplification has become the operating model. This piece explores how systems designed for speed and spectacle erode trust — and why the future of progress depends on architectures that value coherence over chaos.