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Raphael Poss

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Raphael Poss builds tools and programs that help people live with more dignity and agency. Founder of Q10E Labs; councillor in Diemen (D66).

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37 from 8 Nov 2023 to 10 Oct 2026
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2026 12

  1. The Stupefaction of Experts
  2. The Future I Want Runs on Salt
  3. Things That Happened Quietly
  4. Time to Ground Ourselves Again
  5. Life Games: The Conducts We Choose
  6. Tree Mapping, Maintenance Debt, and the Datacenter Squeeze
  7. AI/LLM Access Policy for the World Outside Washington
  8. On Knowledge That Refuses to Be Written Down
  9. Half the Industry Believes; the Other Half Is Quietly Slowing Down
  10. Drucker's Easy Chair, Fungible Communities, and the Class Privilege of AI Optimism
  11. The Yen Carry Trade, the End of Steam, and the Multidisciplinary Advantage
  12. The Gap Between Language and Discovery, and the Cacophony That Wants You to Stop Caring

2025 12

  1. Two Strange Books and a Bench Full of Bad Ideas: November's Links
  2. Coaching the Selfie Generation: A Year of "Me Too" and Muscle Pics
  3. Warts, Data Models, and Why AI Won't Make You Rich: October's Reading List
  4. Lemons, Centaurs, and the Collapsing Middle: September's Trail Through Markets, Minds, and Machines
  5. Why Old Political Labels Don’t Help You Run a Business Anymore
  6. From $100M Offers to AI Misfires: Notes on Value, Hype, and Human Blind Spots
  7. Context Rot, Corporate Feudalism, and the Art of Weakening Belief Edges
  8. The Illusion of Thinking: LLM Cosplay and the Coming AI Class War
  9. Quintism, Friction Economics, and Building a Calm Companion in the Who Cares Era
  10. Hyperlegibility, Democracy Under Siege, and the Weight of Unseen Consequences
  11. The Bullshit Singularity: When the Internet Breaks Even for the Trained
  12. Essentialism, AI Skepticism, and the Moral Duty to Write Human Content

2024 11

  1. Lullaby Language, Systematic Design, and Civilizations as Natural as Grass
  2. The Care Economy and the 70% AI Problem
  3. The Ambassador Matrix: A New Framework for Understanding Your Network
  4. The Multi-Project Mind: Why Some People Need 4-5 Important Things at Once
  5. From Reading to YouTube: Project Portfolio Explosion
  6. The Death of the Public Internet and Rise of Private Group Chats
  7. The Misallocation of Brilliance: From Phantom Stock to Self-Expression Traps
  8. Management Lessons from the Construction Site
  9. When Thiel Meets Covey: Technology, Politics, and the Art of Robust Tolerance
  10. Fractals, Trust, and the Limits of Teaching Wisdom
  11. Reading Renaissance: Books, AI Skepticism, and Corporate Games

2023 2

  1. The Product Builder's Epiphany
  2. From Cockroach Labs to Campaign Trail