Islands of Slowness
The future where machines run the fast economy and humans keep a slow one is not a prediction. It is a pattern you can already see from your kitchen table, and the pattern has terms.
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The Last Free Tier
On the slow unbundling of reality access — and how the market for perception is designed to never fully sell you what it appears to be selling.
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No Column for the Stairwell
Enterprise AI is heading for a gate. Getting the direction of consent right is the easy part; classifying what flows through it is the problem nobody has solved.
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Every Layer Has an Opinion
The newest layer between you and a text isn't a rendering engine — it's a model with a memory of who you are, deciding what the text means.
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Amnesia at Scale
The bottleneck of enterprise AI is not reasoning. It is memory.
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An API for Your Reading Agent
This publication now has an API for your reading agent — and a signature to check it by.
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Thought, Metered
An invoice, a meter, and the moment thinking acquired a unit price.
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When One Side Automates First
Two markets, one design flaw, and the question of who ends up owning the valve.
The Reducing Valve is an independent publication about a single question with many disguises: when intelligence becomes abundant, who owns the filter between the world and your mind? Essays on agents, markets, and attention. An independent magazine, published when there’s something to add.