Risk-maxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
For older generations, risk is a choice. For Gen Z, it's a trap.
Anticipating the Aftermath.
Independent writing from Scott Smith about culture, technology, politics & the future.
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Dec 27
Risk-maxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
For older generations, risk is a choice. For Gen Z, it's a trap.
10 min read
Dec 14
Living in Someone Else's Bet
A look at risk-maxxing from an NPC's point of view.
4 min read
Aug 13
Bunker Mentality
Sven Holm's spare vision of privilege at the end times.
3 min read
Jul 04
The Era of Risk-Maxxing
Power chooses chaos over caution in unstable times
8 min read
Jun 22
Doing Nothing Isn't a Strategy
Strategic thinking shrinks as the future accelerates
4 min read
Oct 06
Always Fighting the Last Insurrection
Why America keeps rehearsing its own collapse
4 min read
Apr 26
Apes on a Treadmill
Nuclear War scenarios and the automation of destruction
4 min read
Apr 14
Coming Attractions
What Civil War gets right about American fracture
4 min read
Jan 21
How Did We Get Here?
The retreat to intimate media in a broken information age
3 min read
May 01
Archive: Playing the Future
Board games, forecasting, and alternate histories
21 min read
Mar 12
Archive: Sailing the Seas of Superdensity
Thoughts on making a collaborative map of uncertainty
6 min read
Dec 23
Archive: Universe Coherence
Ensuring Futures Fit Together
2 min read