Category: Slowseeing
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I : The Architecture of Coherence
I keep thinking about a story from a few years ago about an AI program that sat for a law exam and passed. It shouldn’t have mattered, really. Just another piece of tech news that…
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The Coherence Trilogy
Perhaps it starts with a sense of speed that you can’t quite keep up with. Technology is moving faster than the language we have for it. AI writes, drones fight, quantum machines whisper in laboratories,…
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I : The Age of the Default
For most of human history, the meaning of life was not found. It was inherited. The story of human civilization begins not with freedom but with structure. People didn’t wake each morning asking who they…
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Introduction : The Death of the Default Setting
Earlier life came with preloaded scripts. This was enabled by religion, community, and duty, which offered readymade answers to who we were, what was right, and what mattered. These defaults, though imperfect, gave coherence to…
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The Great Indian Guilt Trip: How ‘No Crackers, No Colors’ Became a Moral Flex
Every Diwali it starts again with the same chatter:We should get out of the city this year, it’s too noisyThe pollution gets unbearableThe poor dogs will suffer And suddenly, everyone becomes an environmental saint.The same…
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The Applause Trap
We pretend we don’t care what people think. We say it casually, I don’t need anyone’s approval. But that’s not quite true. There’s always that small, flickering hope inside us that someone notices. Someone pauses.…
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The Great Corporate AI Fart
The Great Corporate AI Fart: Smells Like Hype, Tastes Like PowerPoint Hold your noses, because the AI hype is out, and it stinks Every big firm is letting loose its own corporate AI fart Long,…
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The Myth of Agile Architecture
Note: This post is a response to a recent blog by the ‘High Priest of Architecture’ at a UK-based bank, and their loyal cronies crooning over it, plus the endless parade of ‘agile evangelists’ parroting…
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Are You Still in a Job Because You’re Playing the Short-Term Game?
Life feels fast these days, but a lot of it doesn’t lead anywhere. Everyone is busy, always connected, and constantly visible, yet few of us feel like we are truly moving forward. The real problem…
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Why AI Alone Won’t Change the World
Something’s shifting. For twenty years, the story was simple: software was eating the world. Marc Andreessen made it a headline in Software Is Eating the World, and for a while, it felt like gospel. Apps…