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Your Right to Digital Self-Control
Social media platforms use the same psychological tricks as slot machines. They give you unpredictable rewards - likes, comments, notifications - that trigger the same brain chemicals as gambling. Your phone buzzes, and you feel compelled to check it. You scroll through your feed looking for something interesting, and you keep going even when you find nothing.
SelfHook: When Your Attention Became the Product and Your Life Became the Price
"Gentlemen," he began, his voice carrying the quiet confidence of someone about to reshape human civilization, "what is the most valuable resource on Earth?" "Oil?" ventured a junior developer. "Water?" suggested another. "Human attention," Zuckerman said, tapping the whiteboard. "And unlike oil or water, people give it away for free. Our job is to harvest it."
The Invisible Border
In the gleaming city of Prospera, citizens enjoy unprecedented prosperity while just beyond, in the shadow of high surveillance walls, lies Ancestria.
Simplify Budget Video Tutorial
Contains full tutorial on how to use the Simplify Budget app!
Our Simplify Budgeting Philosophy - Simplified
Most budget apps promise to automate your financial life. We believe the opposite: intentional, manual tracking creates the awareness needed to actually control your spending.
Meet Sophia
Sophia is a 28-year-old software developer with a quick wit and analytical mind. By day, she navigates complex algorithms and hunts down elusive bugs in her code. By night, she occasionally escapes to her apartment rooftop to clear her head under the stars. She's smart, skeptical, and grounded in logic – the kind of person who needs evidence before accepting any conclusion.
Stargazing with Nova
In a world of digital distractions and never-ending notifications, how often do we pause to look up at the stars and ask the big questions? "Stargazing with Nova" is a philosophical comic journey that follows one night in the life of Sophia, a software developer who finds herself pondering the deepest questions of existence during what was supposed to be a simple break from debugging code.
The Measurement Problem: How Digital Tools Create More Problems Than They Solve
In the beginning, the promise of technology was simple: tools would solve our problems and improve our lives. Yet today, many of us find ourselves trapped in a paradoxical relationship with the digital world—simultaneously grateful for its conveniences and exhausted by its demands.
WriteAway: Publishing Made Ridiculously Simple
WriteAway isn't just another CMS—it's a complete rethinking of how content publishing should work in 2025. We've stripped away all the complexity, configuration, and technical barriers that bog down traditional publishing platforms. What's left? Pure simplicity.
Malcolm X: When Your Justice Access Request Encounters Infinite Redirection
The young man who would later reconfigure his identity parameters stood before the massive structure labeled "AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM ACCESS TERMINAL." A small sign on the imposing doorway read: "Equal Justice Under Law - All Qualified Users Welcome."
Run From What's Comfortable: A Personal Reflection
One of my favorite lines attributed to Rumi is this: "Run from what’s comfortable." Whether or not he truly wrote those exact words, the spirit behind them is something I live by.
About the War in the Middle East
I don't believe in harming civilians during conflict. There should be no excuse—none at all—for ending the lives of innocent people. What Israel is doing in Palestine is deeply disturbing.
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