A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)

Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty

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Dead Forest Theory

Internet darkness is turning into deadness and time is running out

Jul 5 • Venkatesh Rao

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Monitoring the Situation: from 1950s-2020s

A ridiculous generated photo essay taking a meme much too far

Jul 1 • Venkatesh Rao

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June 2026

Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals

Solving the distribution crisis in marketing

Jun 22 • Venkatesh Rao

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May 2026

From Cannons to Chronometers to Factories

A Transmission Hypothesis for the French Precision Revolution and Its American Transformation

May 30 • Venkatesh Rao

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Capital Must Seek Delight

Too few people are experiencing the delights and serendipity of AI, causing capital misallocation

May 15 • Venkatesh Rao

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January 2026

Lost in Bugspace

The temporality of implementation uncertainty in software

Jan 10 • Venkatesh Rao

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December 2025

The Modernity Machine III

Completion, Saturation, and Phase Transition

Dec 24, 2025 • Venkatesh Rao

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Configurancy

Doing Heideggerianism without the baggage of Care/Sorge

Dec 11, 2025 • Venkatesh Rao

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What if bigger models, like bigger stars, fail faster?

A different way to think about the “too big to fail” take about OpenAI

Dec 7, 2025 • Venkatesh Rao

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Causal Why vs Teleological Why

English sucks as a “why” language

Dec 7, 2025 • Venkatesh Rao

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The Ethics of Meaning-Making

The search for "meaning" is not synonymous with "good"

Dec 4, 2025 • Venkatesh Rao

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