Dead-Eye Efficiency
Layoff rituals are framed as sacred efficiency as AI metrics eclipse responsibility and survivors are trained to justify the purge.
Bullshitologist Emeritus · Couch Philosopher · Witness of Systems Collapse
I document how illusions fail after the optimism wears off. I don't coach. I don't console. I leave what remains where it can be examined.
Long-form essays on culture, systems and the mechanics that shape daily life. Each hub is a focused dossier with essays gathered as evidence.
Current field notes from the archive.
Layoff rituals are framed as sacred efficiency as AI metrics eclipse responsibility and survivors are trained to justify the purge.
How growth culture turns movement into virtue, rest into failure and enough into a quiet scandal.
An analysis of how Medium's visibility metrics push writers toward safe formats, self-censorship and obedience.
How wealth, health, fame and planning rely on a control myth that repeatedly collapses under chance, accident and mortality.
How X.com thread culture turns hustle ideology into staged performance through viral templates, impression metrics and course funnels.
Organized investigations, not categories.
Autopsies of platforms where judgment collapses into metrics, discovery into distribution and culture into optimization loops.
Essays on hustle ideology and grind myths that convert anxiety and exhaustion into moral obligation and public performance.
Essays examining how infinite feeds and engagement metrics exhaust attention, erode judgment and normalize cognitive depletion.
Essays on synthetic culture, collapsing authorship and the quiet loss of trust when creation detaches from human effort.
Essays on bodies treated as economic surfaces, optimized under fear, discipline and market pressure.
Essays on control myths, optimization faith and the meaning deficit produced by systems designed to run without friction.