The Thesis: Power, Systems, and the Architecture of Control

We are drowning in noise but starving for signal.

Most commentary today is reactive. It looks at the event—the stock drop, the viral tweet, the political gaffe—and treats it as an isolated incident. This is a mistake. Events are rarely isolated; they are outputs of a system.

If you want to understand why the world works the way it does, you cannot look at the output. You must look at the machine.

This site is my laboratory for doing exactly that. It is not a news feed. It is an ongoing analysis of the four forces that shape our reality:

1. Power Power is rarely about force; it is about incentives. We will look at leverage, negotiation, and the invisible hierarchies that govern institutions. We don't ask "what happened?" We ask "who benefits?" and "who has the leverage?"

2. Systems Everything is a system. A corporation is a system. A social network is a system. A supply chain is a system. When you understand the feedback loops and bottlenecks of a system, you stop being surprised by its failures and start predicting its outcomes.

3. Tech Technology is no longer a "sector"; it is the environment. We are not just observing AI, crypto, or algorithms; we are observing how they re-write the social contract. I write about tech not as a fanboy, but as a strategist analyzing a new terrain.

4. Culture Culture is the operating system of society. It is the narrative layer that justifies power structures. We will dissect the memes, the media narratives, and the mass psychology that drive collective behavior.

The Standard

My goal here is simple: Ideas with receipts.

I am not interested in hot takes. I am interested in durable mental models. If you read something here, it should be just as relevant in five years as it is today.

This is not a diary. It is a portfolio of thinking.

Welcome to the archives.

— GM