Writing & essays

We build institutions for every crisis, then forget to give them an off-switch. This piece argues for “institutional apoptosis”: designing governments, programs, and platforms that know how to die before they devour the people inside them.

We must reclaim the maintenance that keeps people alive rather than the one that keeps systems standing.

A theory of Primitive Accumulation applied to time. Just as capitalism once enclosed land to create value where there was none, it is now enclosing intervals (waiting, boredom, sleep) to capitalize assets that were previously outside the…

Modern efficiency hasn't solved volatility; it has just offloaded it onto you. An analysis of how the removal of buffers, inventory, and downtime created a brittle world where every mistake is a crisis.

Exploring how modern systems are built around an imaginary “reasonable” user, blaming real people for design failure and arguing for infrastructures that accommodate messy, complex human lives.

Explore how system architecture, not intent, makes harm the path of least resistance in institutions. Learn why brittleness and structural fragility offload damage onto vulnerable humans.

Predictive systems don't "find patterns," they establish rules about who gets access, who faces scrutiny, whose harm matters less. Their builders claim neutrality while governing lives. It's time to name it and accept accountability.

AI's fluency removes the friction that keeps our heads on straight. On lucid disorientation, and rebuilding resistance to machines that never say no.

Critiquing the myth of self-sufficiency and outlining a new politics of shared dependence, where care, maintenance, and cooperation become the foundation of autonomy.

We have a deep-seated instinct to punish what doesn’t fit. Here's how data, management, and moral culture pathologize deviation.

Machines once bent to save people. Now people bend to save machines. A design essay on how digital systems reverse the ethics of safety, making people the shock absorbers for machine perfection.