Problems
The Metacrisis: Technology that empowers can also destroy. We shape our tools, then our tools shape us.
Forces that are converging that are rapidly transforming our undertanding of how world works.
- Tech risk — AI, biotech, cyber weapons getting cheaper and more powerful
- Environmental collapse — Exponential growth on a finite planet
- System fragility — Global supply chains one shock away from breaking
- Coordination failure — Everyone optimizing locally, losing globally
- Financialization — Capital extracts instead of funds production
The meta of the matter is what matters most.
Categories
📄️ Financialization
Why everything costs more while your paycheck stays the same
📄️ AI
What is the critical path to avoid failure? What signals do we to monitor? What levers can we use to adjust course? How much time before the illusion of control is over?
📄️ Business
What are the most important problems to solve to run a successful business?
📄️ Crypto
What is the value of money that you can't use to [buy something to eat]?
📄️ decentralized-governance
📄️ Economics
Ponzi Economics
📄️ Governance
What are the biggest problems preventing fair governance for the greater good?
📄️ Society
The problems that trap individuals in worse games—from personal wellbeing to cultural decay
The Meta Problem
The hardest problem is identifying which problem to solve. Most effort gets wasted on:
- Symptoms pretending to be causes
- Urgent things that don't matter
- Problems framed by others for their benefit
Before solving, perceive correctly.
Systems Failure
Dreams pull engineering along. Engineering pushes expansion of dreams. When they decouple, systems break.
| Imbalance | What Happens | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Too much dream | Can't execute, endless promises | Web3 vaporware, never ships |
| Too much engineering | Efficient at wrong things | Optimizing extraction, not value |
| No anchor | Drifting, no shared purpose | Institutions losing legitimacy |
The three systems must remain in balance:
- Belief (goodwill) — where we're going
- Value (trust) — what grounds us
- Control (willpower) — how we navigate
Coordination requires agreement on facts. When facts become contested, coordination becomes impossible.
| Epistemic Failure | Result |
|---|---|
| Lost institutional trust | No shared basis for action |
| Information warfare | Weaponized uncertainty |
| Algorithm-curated reality | Populations living in different worlds |
| Expertise erosion | No one trusted to arbitrate |
Truth is the meta-layer. When it fails, everything built on it fails.