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The 64% Defection: Return-to-Office Mandates Are Foucault’s ‘Docile Bodies’ in Revolt
New 2025 data shows ordered-back workers are interviewing elsewhere at record rates
Aug 24
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The $84 Trillion Inheritance Is Making Heirs Miserable: Seneca’s Warning About Unearned Wealth
What a first-century Stoic understood about the psychology of a fortune handed down, not earned.
Aug 23
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The Intel Briefing
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How Marcus Aurelius’s Dawn Discipline Would Short-Circuit the Modern Phone Check
The 89% Reflex: Meditations, Book V, and the lost architecture of the first waking hour
Aug 3
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June 2026
How Pascal’s “Divertissement” Became an Algorithmic Industry
Three centuries before the first notification, Blaise Pascal diagnosed the existential engine now running inside every pocket
Jun 28
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The $650 Billion Distraction Economy
How Epictetus’s Inner Fortress Nullifies the Notification Onslaught
Jun 26
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The Intel Briefing
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How Sartre’s ‘Bad Faith’ Is Engineered by the Algorithmic Mirror
Why the curation of identity on social media is an exercise in self-deception
Jun 25
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The Intel Briefing
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How Algorithmic Timelines Recreate Heidegger’s ‘Das Man’
Pew data shows teens feel intense pressure to project an idealized self online—a digitalized echo of the anonymous ‘they’ that, for Heidegger, dictates…
Jun 24
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The Intel Briefing
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The 74% Exhaustion Rate: How Psychopolitics Engineered the Attention Economy
The self as a performance metric: data from Gallup, Sapien Labs, and the BLS reveal an economy where attention is both the currency and the silent cost…
Jun 23
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The 73% Gaze Deficit: How Iris Murdoch’s ‘Moral Vision’ Is Engineered Out by the Attention Economy
The average adult now unlocks their phone 150 times a day — an assault on the perceptual discipline Murdoch argued made moral thought possible.
Jun 22
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The Intel Briefing
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Simone de Beauvoir and the economic burden of refusing to choose cognitive health
The $477B Hole in the National Balance Sheet
Jun 21
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The Intel Briefing
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The 58% Analog Shift: Why Heidegger’s ‘Readiness-to-Hand’ Reappears in the Digital Slowdown
How the pursuit of frictionless living is engineering a demand for the real
Jun 19
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The Intel Briefing
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The 71% Fragmented Self: How Kierkegaard’s Despair Reappears in Personalized Feeds
Why algorithmic curation is producing a new form of existential fragmentation among digital natives
Jun 18
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The Intel Briefing
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