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There is a quiet intensity in the story of Jiro, the master sushi chef who, even at ninety-nine, is found not chasing praise, but immersed in ecstasy—the kind that lives in fingertips, in repetition, in the small refinements only he will ever notice. What does Jiro know that the

There’s electricity—sometimes honest dread—underneath conversations about automation, AI, and the shape of the future. But few things knot the stomach faster than the question, “Will I have enough?” Money anxiety is a persistent-bass note in the soundtrack of modern life, and the promises (and threats) of AI

There is a peculiar silence at the heart of today’s AI conversation—a silence that persists amid the thrum of quarterly earnings, burst data pipes, and coffee-fueled innovation sprints. For all the diagrams tracing automation curves, for all the fußnoten about “responsibility” and “alignment,” rare is the boardroom discussion

framed through loss, alignment, and invisible submission From its opening line, “I don’t wanna talk,” ABBA’s “The Winner Takes It All” announces not just a story—it initiates a frame. It’s the frame of avoided confrontation, of brittle composure, of someone already speaking from inside a structure

In the age of AI, the world of work is not merely shifting—it is curling in upon itself, folding new dimensions of possibility and uncertainty with each algorithmic advance. The narrative of jobs “lost to automation” is both too shallow and too small. What’s unfolding is not a

Spend enough time surveying the Indie Hacker and micro-SaaS landscape, and a curious topography emerges—one marked less by obvious success stories than by patterns of rapid saturation, ephemeral advantage, and the ceaseless churn of ideas hunting for narrative gravity. 1. The Law of Diminishing Novelty (and What Lies Beneath