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The Attention Economy Is Eating Itself — and the Humans Who Noticed Are Pulling Ahead

Every app is optimised to colonise your focus. Every feed is a dopamine slot machine. But something is shifting — and those who are wired intentionally are leaving everyone else behind.

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The Browser Is Becoming Your Operating System Again
Web apps are crossing a threshold where native software feels unnecessary. What this means for developers and everyone who just wants their laptop to work.
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After a decade of platform dependency destroyed independent publishing, money is flowing back to owned audiences. The newsletter economy was just the beginning.
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Why Everyone Suddenly Cares About Craft
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Stop Calling It Hustle Culture — It's Just Capitalism With a Gym Membership

The productivity-industrial complex has successfully rebranded exploitation as self-optimisation. Your 5am wake-up is not discipline. It is compliance.

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Stop Calling It Hustle Culture — It's Just Capitalism With a Gym Membership
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"The productivity-industrial complex has successfully rebranded exploitation as self-optimisation. Your 5am wake-up is not discipline — it is compliance."
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AI Won't Take Your Job. The Person Using AI Better Than You Will.
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"The threat is not from machines. It is from humans who have understood the leverage — and they are not waiting for you to catch up."
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The Algorithm Didn't Kill Taste. We Let It.
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"Recommendation engines don't create preferences. They reveal what we never had the courage to admit we wanted. That's a different problem entirely."
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