Books

A first-contact novel that uses aliens as a scalpel on the question of consciousness.

The smartest person in the room is often its biggest bottleneck — not through malice, but through the accumulated habit of believing their contribution is indispensable.

The four-year degree was never a proxy for ability — it was a proxy for cheap filtering, and the skills gap it created is the compounding cost of that convenience.

Empathy is not an individual trait but a systemic output — built or diminished by the institutions we inhabit.