It’s not the technology they use but the will to conquer—the striving itself—that creates the core problem.

We’re only in crisis because the map has replaced the territory; the virtual reality matters more than the real reality.

When the tech fetishist’s childlike hope for a digital womb combines with the billionaire’s faith in a winner-takes-all competitive marketplace, look out. It results in a brand of activist futurism that sees the present—our reality, including us—as an impediment to their vision of what could and what should be.

While we may begin using tools for our collective benefit, we slowly remake our world around the needs of technology, such as building highways and suburbs to support the automobile, or changing school curriculums so that they work on computers. Once we’ve done that for long enough, we eventually find ourselves inside something like a machine—a sel

Yes, nature is in trouble, but The Mindset’s approach to addressing this collective crisis is always to do something. Fix it. Hack it. Reboot it. Develop it. Scale it. Automate it. As if doing less, or even doing nothing, were not an option.

Behavioral economics is really just a euphemism for marketing psychology, from an even more programmatic perspective.

In their effort to become more like banks, businesses cannibalized themselves, liquidating any divisions that were on the ground actually creating value.

Entrepreneurship today has less to do with innovating a product than innovating on the business model for growth. Never is the growth itself questioned.

By refusing to recognize anything that can’t be quantized to a one or zero, this analysis misses everything in between. It depicts an autotuned reality, where every note must be averaged up or down to the nearest quantized notch. The subtleties of a vocalist’s interpretation—what true music lovers listen for most—are discounted as “noise.” The emph