Independent writing on how new technology transforms the shape of firms, the architecture of civic life, and the texture of human relationships. Anonymous. Slow. Specific.https://0x156.comen-ushttps://0x156.com/blog/when-ai-collapses-the-middlehttps://0x156.com/blog/when-ai-collapses-the-middleMiddle management exists because coordination is expensive. As coordination gets cheap, the layer that provides it becomes structurally redundant — and the firm that replaces it looks nothing like an org chart.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTworkbusinessorganizationsaihttps://0x156.com/blog/the-ai-native-firm-is-not-what-you-thinkhttps://0x156.com/blog/the-ai-native-firm-is-not-what-you-think"AI-native" has become marketing shorthand for companies that use AI. The actually interesting shift is to firms whose org design, decision process, and unit economics are shaped by what AI is good at — and those look structurally different.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinessorganizationsaiworkhttps://0x156.com/blog/quiet-privatization-of-civic-infrastructurehttps://0x156.com/blog/quiet-privatization-of-civic-infrastructureIdentity, communication, payments, maps, information access — the rails of civic life now run through a handful of private platforms. The state is increasingly a tenant on infrastructure it does not own and cannot easily regulate. This is not a conspiracy; it is an equilibrium.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTpowerinstitutionsgovernanceplatformshttps://0x156.com/blog/trust-when-anyone-can-fake-anythinghttps://0x156.com/blog/trust-when-anyone-can-fake-anythingGenerative models have made content infinite and identity synthesizable. The old shortcuts for trust — a voice on the phone, a video of an event, a signed email — are degrading into unreliability. What replaces them is not technological. It is social.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTtrustidentitysocietyaihttps://0x156.com/blog/friendship-in-a-medium-of-infinite-throughputhttps://0x156.com/blog/friendship-in-a-medium-of-infinite-throughputRelationships used to be shaped by the cost of contact. Letters were expensive, calls took effort, meeting up took time. The costs are gone. What we are learning is that the costs were doing work we did not notice — and the structure of friendship is changing to match the new economics.Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTsocietyrelationshipsidentity