Kim Kardashian doesn’t wear archival Galliano because it’s expensive; she wears it because it’s impossible to obtain.
In luxury, scarcity drives desire, but contemporary scarcity is manufactured. Limited drops, seasonal exclusives, and numbered editions are ultimately all accessible to anyone with enough money. True archives are different. They’re... See more
What it produces is something like hypomania: a state where your productive capacity genuinely increases. You’re not imagining that you’re getting more done, you actually are, but your evaluative faculty is unaccustomed to this mode of creation. You lose the ability to distinguish between “this is good” and “I feel good making this.” Everything... See more
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more
This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources, between knowledge and the authority that produced it. LLMs accelerate this process to an unprecedented scale.
We often talk about thought leadership as if it’s a single skill—a mysterious art form you either possess or you don’t. This framing is not only inaccurate, but it’s also fundamentally disempowering for students and rising leaders. A far more accurate and actionable metaphor is that thought leadership is a form of cognitive fitness, and your... See more