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Notes tagged with "Culture"
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Attention economy and artificial intelligence
A reflection on the new cognitive bottleneck in the age of informational abundance.
AI Is Coming for Culture
AI is not merely automating tasks — it is restructuring the conditions under which culture is produced, distributed, and valued.
Why Real Progress Feels Slower in 2025 Than in 2005
Better tools, faster machines, smarter assistants — yet developers feel more constrained than ever. Here's why the feeling is accurate.
Sacrificing the Inferior Self: Order, Resilience, and the Path to a Functional Society
Suppressing base impulses and subordinating the reactive self to rational structure is not repression — it is the mechanism of both personal resilience and civilisational function.
Entropy, Progress, and the Illusion of Meaning
Exponential tools simulate progress while structural meaning erodes. Movement without direction is drift. This is the geometry of Zero.
Small Teams, Strong Systems
Small teams outperform large ones not through headcount, but through system design. Constraints force clarity, ownership, and feedback loops that scale beyond the team itself.
Why Local Development Feels Heavier Every Year
Organizations adopt tools as cultural practice rather than necessity, adding Docker, CI/CD, and npm bloat to projects that don't need them. Start minimal; add tools only when they solve real problems.
When “DX” Hurts Real Productivity
Optimizing for developer convenience often masks deeper productivity losses. Real output — shipped features and resolved problems — matters more than frictionless workflows.
Developer Burnout and the Illusion of “Best Practices”
Best practices often mask organizational dysfunction as technical virtue, where their uncritical adoption contributes to burnout and erodes engineering judgment.