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Habituation is the Reality Equation’s decay law: every repetition trains the Expectation until the real thing vanishes from awareness — and the AI stack that closes your gaps is deepening the dose. Art solved this a century ago; your stack will have to learn the same trick. … readThe Anesthesia of the Expected
The deepest change is not that a machine performs a task. It is that the function stops making a routine claim on human attention. … readAutomation Does the Work. Absorption Makes the Work Disappear.
Attention flows to the gap between the Actual and the Expectation — and the stack that briefs you on your day is quietly writing the Expectation. The fight for attention is moving upstream, from engineering signals to authoring what you anticipate. … readThe Second Author
The Reality Equation has priced surprise as something that happens to you. Curiosity is the other side of the market: a purchase order for surprise — an expectation carried, on purpose, to the place where it is most likely to break. As the stack absorbs the ambient supply, the only updates left are the ones you commission. … readThe Demand Side of Surprise
Since February 2023 I have run a growing team of AI agents across my work and my life. This is the short version of what happened, and where the whole record lives. … readMy Story With AI: Four Years, 2.7 Million Artifacts, One Person
The treadmill was invented in 1818 as a punishment; we now pay monthly to climb it. When machines removed exertion from work, exertion came back as a product — and as the stack absorbs prediction error from daily life, surprise is next in line for a gym. … readThe Surprise Gym
Your brain learns from exactly one thing — prediction error — and the stack’s whole mandate is to remove prediction error from your life. Every error it absorbs on your behalf becomes training data for the machine that absorbed it. The learning doesn’t stop; it relocates. … readLearning Is Metabolized Surprise
A message that sounds exactly like care can now be produced without any. When every sentence may be stack-drafted, polish stops proving effort, surprise stops carrying news of the person — and trust between people goes looking for collateral that cannot be delegated. … readProof of Person
Trust is what attention becomes when prediction stops failing — and the attention economy’s endgame was never to hold your gaze but to be allowed to disappear. There are two ways a system stops surprising you: it stopped failing, or its failures stopped surfacing. … readTrust Is Retired Attention
The stack is not just absorbing your surprises — it is underwriting them. Coverage changes the risks you take, the claims are paid in the wrong currency, and the carrier keeps the loss history of your mind. Expectation is the one asset to carry bare. … readThe Insured Mind