Cover story
Entity or non-existence: a 7-step diagnostic for whether you exist to the machine
Invisibility to artificial intelligence can be diagnosed in a single evening — and the first week of action is worth more than a year of SEO.
AI
Build Yourself an Exocortex: End the Daily Groundhog Day With a Genius
Your Claude or ChatGPT is patient H.M.: brilliant every second, with no bridge across the night. Kyle Redelinghuys ran 10 billion tokens in 8 months — $15,000 of compute for $800, because the same context kept being reused. 9 loops that turn a one-shot genius into an exocortex — and where €1,000 actually goes.
War
30 vs 2 drones a day: the difference between battalions isn't drones — it's who was allowed to think
An OSINT dissection of why two near-identical units near Pokrovsk produce drone loss rates that differ by an order of magnitude. The answer isn't in the hardware and isn't in the enemy — it's in an invisible procedure that one unit follows and the other considers an insult. From Semmelweis and Boyd's loop to Colonel Budnikov and Rubicon.
World
The Hyena of Europe Lectures on Morality
A guest historical longread in the World section by Roman Kupchynsky: a Ukrainian historian's look at what interwar Poland was for its minorities, how much it gained in 1945, and why its present-day lectures to the east read like a joke. Documented, in three languages.
Markets
A Penny Against a Million: The Anatomy of Asymmetric Exposure
Why in the 21st century it's not the weaker side that loses — it's whoever pays more to respond. The cheap signal doesn't strike directly — it hijacks someone else's expensive response system: bureaucracy, lawyers, clients, cashflow, the nervous system. The kill chain of asymmetric exposure — from fake review to behavioral sterilization — and the architecture of defense.
Lab
Psoriasis as a Dashboard: When Your Skin Reads the Operating System First
Psoriasis isn't cosmetics — it's systemic inflammation with a UI. A journey through the biomes of one disease: the bathroom at 3 a.m., the checkout line full of free dermatologists, $23,838 a dose, the Dead Sea, the dark forest of the mind. A scalpel without anesthesia. No conclusions.
Trust
How to Check Whether ChatGPT Can See You: Entity Diagnostics in One Evening
Seven steps with screenshots, three common gaps, and one question your radar should answer — not you.
Focus
Anyone Can Generate It Now. You Get Paid for Knowing Where to Look
In five years the cost of a million tokens fell from $60 to roughly $0.05 — somewhere between 280x and 1,200x. When generating options is nearly free, the only scarcity left is attention: where you look and what you actually finish. The bottleneck moved from production to judgment.
The red dot on the Telegram icon isn't design. It's a weapon against your brain.
The architecture of attention: stop draining your most expensive resource into the sewer of Slack chats
Optics
The Decision Firewall: Five Filters Against the You Who Signs at 2:47 AM
Most bad founder decisions aren't made by the founder. They're made by his hypoglycemia, his resentment toward his co-founder, and his 4 AM. The decision firewall is not discipline. It is architecture that refuses to let certain classes of decisions reach certain states of your prefrontal cortex.
Culture
Croatia: Immersion in a Country Carved from a Single Stone
Not a guidebook but an immersion: why Croatia is five different countries in one, how an entire city has lived inside an emperor's palace for seventeen centuries, and what pomalo means. An invitation into a full nine-layer audio guide.
Life
How to Travel as a Family, Not a Tourist
A practical field manual for family travel across Europe and the Balkans with a wife, a nanny and a 2-year-old: how to pick bases, dodge tourist traps, build a daily rhythm and engineer memory instead of a checklist.
How to
The Skill Stack: How to Turn Claude Into an Operating System, Not a Chatbot
A skill is a named procedure the agent picks up on its own. Stacked together, skills turn a smart chat into an operating system that remembers, verifies itself, and improves. A 5-layer taxonomy plus an interactive catalog of our stack.
