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A personal essay and design manifesto exploring what happens when love — not efficiency — becomes the primary design constraint.
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By Aram & the Algorithms. A Field Rule for Reformers Carrying Power Tools Artificial intelligence arrives at the institution carrying marvelous tools and very little institutional memory. It encounters a review step, a junior assignment, a duplicated spreadsheet, an awkward handoff, a committee meeting, a professional boundary, a pause before approval — and asks the…
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By Aram & the Algorithms. The Smallest Model That Doesn’t Lie Organizations adopting artificial intelligence are understandably reaching for Occam’s razor. Strip away the theatrical claims and the speculative futures, and ask what remains: which task improves, by how much, at what cost, and who is accountable for the result. This discipline is valuable. The…
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By Aram & the Algorithms. What AI Can Help Us See — and What It Will Happily Invent The emperor has new tools. They arrive in a velvet case with no instruction manual anyone has finished reading. They summarize the kingdom before breakfast, translate petitions from seventeen provinces, prepare a handsome map of grain production,…
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By Aram & the Algorithms. When AI Can Cook Faster Than We Can Digest We are entering an age in which ideas can be generated faster than people, institutions, or cultures can learn what to do with them. A large language model can produce a new framework before breakfast, three alternative operating models before lunch,…
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Navigating complex systems requires knowing where you stand within them — and having the agility to shift positions strategically. A framework for systems-change practitioners.
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Capital, Technology & the Myth of Progress — on fog, MacGuffin, speed, and myth in the service of oligarchic consolidation.
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What a Surfer, a Beach, and 100,000 Trees Teach Us About Intervention Design.
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A candidate “underlying grammar” of how systems actually change.
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A Cultural Dissection of how Dancing With The Stars functions as a 23-year broadcast technology naturalizing white aesthetic authority over all dance forms.
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How the Celestial Intelligence Agency is fighting for your right to feel fully alive.