The following is an excerpt from an ongoing treatise on liminality, postmodernity and artificial intelligence, called “Anti-liminality: The transcendence of “the limit” in the Postmodern Age”. The work tries to understand how AI can meaningfully impact postmodern life, adressing questions of belonging, transition, community and disciplinary fields. More details coming soon! Artificial Intelligence and the…

While reading this recent article on The Economist (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/31/the-extraordinary-rise-of-miamis-economy), Miami’s fiscal setting caught my attention. On a Friday night in Miami, a $50 million house changes hands. Somewhere nearby, another tower rises above Brickell. A hedge fund announces another expansion. A family office arrives from New York. A technology company opens an office. A private-equity…

Having spent a decent amount of time in-between airports recently, the observation of the rhythms and pastimes of my fellow travelers became an enjoyable hobby. Frankly, it killed time. Between Marrakech, Madrid and Paris, the seeming liminality of each airport was fascinating to observe. Truly, if one could make the argument, time and space are…

There is a price for a unit of thinking, and it is falling faster than almost any price in the modern economic record. In November 2022, querying a machine that could perform at roughly the level of a competent generalist cost about twenty dollars for a million tokens. By October 2024 the same capability cost…

On paper, adulthood should be arriving later than ever, and arriving in better condition than ever. Young adults today are, on average, the most schooled cohort in human history. They hold more credentials than their parents did, command more information than any generation before them, and operate tools that would have read as miracles a…

Nowadays, one defining feature of modern society is perpetual connection. Social media galore; endless entertainment; an uninterrupted stream of noise. One could argue there is barely a moment left in which someone is truly bored, truly unreachable, or even truly alone. Never before have people spoken so constantly, shared so much of themselves, or remained…

[12 min. read] On an unassuming July morning a couple of decades ago, a series of Asian economies entered freefall. It was on July 2nd 1997 that the Thai baht — fuelled by hot money and propping up Thailand’s bubble economy — unexpectedly, or rather inevitably, crashed. What followed across the region was a sequence…

As of writing, a massive intergenerational wealth transfer is underway – if not already happening as we speak. This is not a passive transfer of wealth. It is an active competition over who captures it. Who is preying on whom? To put it simply: -> Sellers under time pressure → become price-takers -> Capital exploits…