when you no longer have to work to live, will you still want to live?

when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?

when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?

the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly... See more

In a world of abundance, scarcity evolves. While pre-internet scarcity was about a physically constrained, or otherwise limited, number of resources, post-internet scarcity is about separating signal from noise.

So here’s where we are: caught in a compound crisis where economic stress reduces cognitive bandwidth, reduced bandwidth enables extraction, extraction deepens economic stress, stress plus overload erodes trust, loss of trust prevents coordination, coordination failure leaves problems unsolved, and unsolved problems deepen the crisis.

This isn’t a... See more

Abundant environments may surprise you: even though they’re lacking in material scarcity or literal friction, there’s still plenty of work to do. It’s just a different kind of work: the work of dealing with complexity, clarity, curation, and especially synthesis. The effort and value being traded here lend themselves far more naturally to a gift... See more