Annelise Riles (@anneliseriles)

Calling all policy-makers and government folks in transition: You're Not Having an Identity Crisis. You're Having an Institutional Crisis. Here's what I keep telling my friends leaving government: You're not lost. The institutions are. For decades, we were told that global problems get... See more

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My entire world model has collapsed into a single bit: agency, or no agency.

The transition will take time, and it will be far from painless. Institutions built around credentials won’t go gently into the good night. Middle management will fight to keep headcount because it will take time to shift away from the idea that more people working on a... See more

Pirate Wires • Agency Is Eating the World

THE PERSONAL PANOPTICON. A few months ago, I started running my life out of Claude Code. Not out of intention to do so, it was just the place where everything met. And it just kept working. Empires are won by conquest. What keeps them standing is something much... See more

Molly Cantillon x.com

it's actually interesting to think of the meta potential. of coming home to place, rather than lose ourselves in the meta crisis of yet again trying to fi nd solutions to a problem at global scale

Pirate Wires • Agency Is Eating the World

Samantha Power • The Great Simplification