Gunnar Þorvaldsson

What’s left is a runaway process. A sequence of product releases masquerading as progress. Every “small update” contains untested implications. Every “upgrade” shifts the terrain just a little more. Until suddenly a world exists where AI runs parts of the labor market, moderates political discourse, generates synthetic research, and no one remember... See more

PowerPoint is an inscription device, an actor that formats, frames, and authorizes specific performances while rendering others invisible. PowerPoint is a method of governance that quietly enforces a regime of legibility that makes complexity look like a disorder and uncertainty look like a risk

The modern white-collar economy runs on a kind of useful fiction. The meetings, the documentation, the rituals of email and review—none of it is useless, but a lot of it exists less to generate value and more to sustain employment. The middle class isn’t the reward for efficiency. It’s the camouflage for stability. A semi-meritocratic pseudo-UBI he... See more

Grand strategy isn’t just about planning—it’s about adapting. It’s about knowing when to act like a fox and when to think like a hedgehog. When to be rational and when to trust instinct. When to stick to principles and when to make compromises. The best strategists, from Augustus to Machiavelli to Queen Elizabeth, understood that strategy isn’t abo... See more

A typical commercial airplane is off course 90% of the time, yet it almost always arrives at its destination because it knows exactly where it’s going and makes constant small corrections along the way