Risk-Maxxing on Slate Money
Podcast: Talking with Felix Salmon about risk and trickle-down eschatologies.
Anticipating the Aftermath.
Independent writing from Scott Smith about culture, technology, politics & the future.
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May 16
Murder Walls and Case Files
Thinking with strings attached.
3 min read
May 13
Risk-Maxxing on Slate Money
Podcast: Talking with Felix Salmon about risk and trickle-down eschatologies.
1 min read
May 07
The Ratchet
Part 5: Why risk-maxxing doesn't reverse.
2 min read
Apr 23
Trickle-Down Eschatology
Part 4: The urgency flows down, but the safety net doesn't.
6 min read
Dec 27
Risk-maxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
Part 3: Risk-maxxing as a generational trap.
10 min read
Dec 14
Living in Someone Else's Bet
Part 2: Risk-maxxing from an NPC's point of view.
4 min read
Jul 04
The Era of Risk-Maxxing
Part 1: 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