You are what you consume. “you become what you worship. Give your attention and devotion to something blind, and you go blind. Trust in something deaf, and you lose the capacity to hear. Serve something that cannot feel, and you… Read More »The Battlefield of Attention
Religion always gets used for power purposes. “European colonialism didn’t invent religious capture, but it industrialized it.” https://tantaman.substack.com/p/the-alchemy-of-power
Religion in another form is still doing the damage. “A system built on terror produced terrified people who perpetuated terror. A system built on lies produced people who could no longer distinguish truth. A system built on the surveillance of… Read More »Secularized Worship
AI won’t save us. “As companies grow, they all end up with more and more layers of collaboration, review, and management. Why? Because otherwise mistakes get made, and mistakes are increasingly expensive at scale. The average value added by a… Read More »Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
What’s the difference? “And it failed. The proletariat did not revolt. The workers bought cars and televisions and became, in their modest way, bourgeois. The prediction did not come true. History did not end as promised.” https://tantaman.substack.com/p/debugging-the-confusion-liberalism
It is good to define what we are talking about. “The conservative said: society is not a machine to be redesigned but an organism that has evolved. Its customs, hierarchies, and prejudices—yes, even its prejudices—encode wisdom we cannot fully articulate.… Read More »The New Lords
The short version.
Dictating to people how to do stuff is counterproductive in many cases.
If you thought the military spending is high. “Google, $185 billion. Microsoft, $114 billion. Meta, $135 billion. Combined: $650 billion. [Not including OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX/XAI.] That is like buying the US Navy every year. “ https://asymco.com/2026/03/10/the-most-brilliant-move-in-corporate-history/
Institutions matter.