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Short, practical essays on operations, governance, and reliability. On-site abstracts only; full essays live on The Crumple Zone.
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These essays read like postmortems: what systems do under stress, where failure lands, and who carries the repair cost.
They track procedure as allocation—time, composure, documentation, persistence—not just money.
Expect operational facts over moral positioning: clocks, escalation paths, reversibility, ownership, and closure records.
When something goes wrong, who is forced to carry the cost—and how long can the system remain wrong without consequence?
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Why ethical language without hard constraints keeps harmful systems running.
~1 min read For ai safety teams.
Published
Assume Maximum Awareness
Institutional harm is often priced in; accountability means disrupting that bargain.
~1 min read For institutions teams.
Published
The Worldview with a Gun
How AI threat scores become self-fulfilling violence in policing and warfare.
~1 min read For ai teams.
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Why ethical language without hard constraints keeps harmful systems running.
~1 min read For ai safety teams.
Published
Assume Maximum Awareness
Institutional harm is often priced in; accountability means disrupting that bargain.
~1 min read For institutions teams.
Published
The Worldview with a Gun
How AI threat scores become self-fulfilling violence in policing and warfare.
~1 min read For ai teams.
Published
Institutional Apoptosis
Designing institutions with end-of-life protocols instead of endless growth.
~1 min read For governance teams.
Published
The Capture of “Maintenance”
Distinguishing people-first maintenance from upkeep that protects brittle systems.
~1 min read For maintenance teams.
How capital encloses waiting, boredom, and sleep to monetize human time.
~1 min read For time teams.
Older essays (6)
Published
The Death of Slack
Modern efficiency offloads volatility onto people when buffers disappear.
~1 min read For resilience teams.
Published
Governance by Caricature
Systems built for an imaginary “reasonable user” punish real-world complexity.
~1 min read For design teams.
Published
You Can Design Harm Out
System architecture, not intent, makes harm the default—and can be redesigned to remove it.
~1 min read For safety teams.
Published
Non-Coercive Systems
how care can replace coercion across governance, labor, and healthcare.
~1 min read For governance teams.
Published
Temporal Solidarity
embracing Universal Crip Time to transform productivity into a communal practice.
~1 min read For crip time teams.
Published
Proof-based Harm
reimagining documentation as a tool for equity rather than exclusion.
~1 min read For documentation teams.
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