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I write about AI, Internet Services, and Customer Experience Design—examining how these forces shape the way we connect, work, and interact online.
Once you strip away everything already routed around at the edge, a telco's balance sheet is government paper and civil works. So why does the industry keep funding strategy engagements about capturing value from technologies it didn't build? Telcos don't hire consultants to learn where the value went; they hire them to be told slowly.
Read postZuckerberg's superintelligence manifesto is a stirring read about a company that never existed. I rewrote it with adjustments that match Meta's actual track record, plus 57 supporting footnotes. Beacon, Cambridge Analytica, hospital tracking pixels: the pattern isn't subtle.
Read post11:24 “All plants are edible, at least once”·11:08 “..stack the bones in the shower…” Gibson, “Count Zero”
est. 2001 · restored 2026
Long before this site existed, I spent my days in the trenches of DNS governance. These two documents survive from that era—reproduced here in full, warts and all, for anyone who finds the early politics of the Internet as historically interesting as I do.
