Externalities

Your Favorite Platforms Are Dying on Purpose — And the Math Proves It

📅 August 3, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Every platform you love decays not because of bad CEOs, but because the economic math rewards companies for offloading costs onto society. Enshittification is a feature of broken accounting, not a bug of greed. Until we force companies to pay for the destruction they cause, everything will keep getting worse — and the spreadsheet will say it’s a success.

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AI Was Supposed to Save You Time. It’s Actually Stealing It.

📅 July 29, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

AI was sold as a productivity revolution, but it quietly pulled off the greatest bait-and-switch in modern work: it made producers faster while making readers slower. Every AI-generated memo, report, and email externalizes a hidden cognitive tax onto the reader — forcing them to decipher, verify, and decode content that sounds plausible but carries no real signal. The efficiency gains are captured by the writer. The friction is absorbed by you.

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