How tools, institutions and families shape who we become.
The long view: golden ages, hierarchy, meritocracy, money and the family, and what changes when the machine takes the thinking.
- Agents Remember: How the Power Law Freezes Again — Agents add a new kind of memory. If they remember brand, money and early arrival, the power law freezes again, faster than before. If they remember contribution, memory becomes the reset nature always had.
- Why Hierarchy Was Inevitable: The Layered Formula — A deep dive into how hierarchy emerged as an inevitable consequence of human cooperation and efficiency. Understanding the layered formula that shaped human civilization.
- We Inherited Nature's Power Law, Then Broke It — Power laws are natural. What's unnatural is how humans froze them. Nature resets hierarchies constantly. We removed the reset mechanism entirely.
- Stone Age Instincts, Medieval Systems, 21st Century Problems — How our ancient cooperation instincts are mismatched with modern socioeconomic systems. We're using Stone Age instincts and medieval institutions in a 21st-century world.
- Social Mobility: Beyond Meritocracy — Social mobility was once largely determined by birth: where you were born and to whom.
- Hierarchy: From Living Tool to Frozen Ladder — How humans took nature's flexible hierarchy and froze it into rigid social structures. The evidence shows our biology punishes us for building frozen hierarchies.
- The Efficiency Theory of Human Evolution — The Layered Formula:
- AI, Tokenization, and the Illusion of Shared Prosperity — Efficiency grows the pie—but doesn't decide who gets the slices. Lower friction is not the same as lower barriers to power.
- AI Is Removing the Administrative Weight of Civilisation From the Human Mind — Everyone is calling AI the break in the line. It is the line. The same move we have made for ten thousand years: compress the world to remove inefficiency. The question was never whether AI takes the load. It is what you do with the part it cannot carry.