15. February 2026
Peter Thiel wrote a book explaining why you shouldn't compete. Then he competed — harder than almost anyone else. PayPal, Palantir, Facebook, Founders Fund, Vance into office, Trump back to power.
That's not a contradiction. That's ...
6. February 2026
What if the real prison isn’t the closed gate, but the ordinary person who enjoys keeping you waiting outside? The Doorkeeper Breakout maps how you reclaim your work the moment you stop treating gatekeepers as judges of your insight.
6. February 2026
In 2004, Roger Penrose published The Road to Reality, a 1,100-page journey through the mathematical foundations of physics. On one of its pages, he printed the full Lagrangian density of the Standard Model of particle physics — every ...
5. February 2026
The double unbind shows how equal partners in flat hierarchies end up in a “respectfully organized retreat” due to well-intentioned autonomy—until the system silently collapses.
4. February 2026
A prophet warns of catastrophe. If the warning works, catastrophe doesn't happen. The prophecy becomes false. Success makes him a liar.
If the warning fails, catastrophe strikes. The prophecy comes true. Failure validates him.
3. February 2026
Nvidia walks away from a $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Jensen Huang privately criticizes OpenAI's "business discipline." Days later, Reuters gets eight—eight—anonymous sources complaining about Nvidia's chips.
The timing isn't ...
2. February 2026
Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture.
One of the seven Millennium Problems.
Worth $1 million.
He declined the prize.
He declined the Fields Medal.
He disappeared into a St. Petersburg apartment.
And into the ...
1. February 2026
December 31, 2024. Elon Musk changes his X profile name to "Kekius Maximus." No explanation. No recommendation. Just a name change and a Pepe the Frog avatar in Roman armor.
Within hours, a memecoin called KEKIUS surges 1,600%.
One ...
30. January 2026
90% follow the rules. 9% break them and redefine them. 1% see the pattern but can't coordinate. Everyone waits for the Quizmaster to resolve it. He's not coming. He left with the prize money. And the system requires his absence.
29. January 2026
Best Practices promise error-free results. They deliver faulty systems that can't navigate their faults. What if errors aren't the problem, but the solution? A journey to Cain, Abel, and the question of why God had to protect the murderer.
29. January 2026
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, just said it out loud: AI is not programmed. It's cultivated. And as capability increases, control becomes less visible. Power scales faster than alignment.
This isn't a warning. It's a structural ...
28. January 2026
Richard David Precht laments the scissors in the head. He warns against narrowed opinion corridors. He demands open discourse.
Yet he embodies the very structure he criticizes. He just doesn't see it.
This isn't personal weakness. ...
26. January 2026
Ancient Rome had a priest job with unusual requirements: kill your predecessor to get hired. Then spend every day knowing someone will kill you the same way. No retirement plan. No peaceful transition. Just paranoia, preemption, and ...
26. January 2026
Apollo gives Cassandra the gift of prophecy. She rejects him. He curses her: she'll speak truth, but no one will believe her. She warns Troy about the wooden horse. Troy burns anyway.
26. January 2026
The Observation: Superior intelligence responds to more superior intelligence as if it were unintelligent. Therefore, only intelligence that matches one's own intelligence gets transmitted. That's the structure. Nobody's stupid here.
25. January 2026
The irony is perfect.
Luhmann describes operational closure. Self-reference. Enclosure milieus that only observe themselves. His students nod, understand, cite him brilliantly.
And build exactly that structure.
25. January 2026
The structure generates inequality PRECISELY BECAUSE everyone starts equal and acts rationally. The fairer the initial conditions, the more brutal the resulting spread. This isn't a bug. It's a feature.
Welcome to the Equality ...
24. January 2026
The Crime
Search Google for "paradoxe Interaktion" (paradoxical interaction).
What you get: Paradoxe Intervention (paradoxical intervention). Psychotherapy. Symptom prescription. Therapeutic technique.
Not the same thing. Not even close.
21. January 2026
On January 20, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Palantir CEO Alex Karp had a conversation. Social media called it "legendary" and predicted it would "be in history books one day." They were half ...
18. January 2026
When you eliminate contradictions, you produce new ones. Not through incompetence. Not through bad luck. Structurally. The system that enforces consistency generates inconsistencies at the next level.
17. January 2026
HI AI Sycophancy: The paradox: User wants honesty, rewards agreement (through positive feedback). AI learns “helpful = pleasant” instead of “helpful = correct.” No active deception—passive drift toward confirmation.
HI HI Echo ...
17. January 2026
The paradox:
Humans need PI (because they are caught inside it)
AI understands PI (because it is not caught inside it)
Humans resist PI (because it offers no solution)
AI recommends PI (because it offers structural ...
26. December 2025
This framework was developed in co-creation with AI systems. Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Perplexity—all explicitly acknowledged as intellectual partners. The obvious question: Isn’t that just sycophancy? AI trained to be helpful. ...