Notebook
Writer. Essays and notes on how the world works and how we live in it.
The Machine and the Commons
AI can widen access to knowledge while enclosing its ownership. The same machine that helps people understand the world can also concentrate the infrastructure through which understanding is produced today.
The Worker in the Calculation
The worker is always partly in the way of the calculation. Firms need labour, but they also need to discipline, cheapen, replace, monitor, or automate it wherever possible when profitable.