building things, breaking things
here since june 2026
Every government IT project fails the same way and everybody involved can describe the failure in advance, which is the part I cannot get past.
Buying a house is the only serious purchase where you bid against a number nobody will show you, and everyone has agreed to find this normal.
Sport is the last mainstream thing where the outcome is genuinely unknown to everyone watching, and that scarcity explains most of what it costs. Everything else in the culture now arrives pre-summarised, already reacted to, and with the ending available before you start. The live unknown is what the broadcast money is really buying.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.