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Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
What if the most game-optimal play in the new system is actually to become relentlessly, unapologetically you?
 • Tina He
AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
Our brains, evolved for tribal politics and campfire stories, are ill-equipped for the moral ambiguity of a system with no soul to save or damn.
 • Tina He
The Art of Understanding What's Going On
The survivors will be those who've meticulously deciphered the underlying mechanics, exploiting subtler truths while others chased fleeting illusions.
 • Tina He
Embedded Education
Learning no longer lives on an individual platform. Rather, learning happens everywhere. We’re entering a new age of “Embedded Education”.
 • Tina He
The New Frontier of Belonging
Even as migrants, we can feel local to many homes.
 • Tina He
Above and below the LLMs
God-like power in one moment, supplicant the next.
 • Tina He
The Illusions of Barbell Theory
The middle isn’t dead; it’s just harder to see beneath the glare of extreme outcomes.
 • Tina He
Context is all you need
The most valuable resource isn't algorithms, compute, or even just data. It's context.
 • Tina He, jad, Yondon Fu, Sean Thielen-Esparza, and koodos labs
Vibecore: the economics of authenticity
Your selfhood becomes both signal and currency: authentic enough to resonate but compressed enough to move seamlessly through the system.
 • Tina He
Preserving Sacredness
The worst fraud isn’t even the loss of capital, but the betrayal of faith.
 • Tina He
The Illusions of Free-to-Play
From freemium products to open-source projects to marketplaces to UGC platforms, free-to-play games are already everywhere.
 • Tina He
[FKPXLS] Brave New Decade
The Brave New Decade will be about finally having the courage to confront ourselves as flawed humans as we are, and finding ourselves in one another.
 • Tina He
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