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Overexplaining vs. Accountability: What Actually Works
We often use lengthy explanations after a mistake to manage our own discomfort. But true accountability requires concrete steps, not just eloquent…
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Kanav Jain
Ethics Is What Gets You Fired
Stop searching for an ethical AI CEO. The job is impossible. The problem isn't a lack of individual virtue, but a system that makes virtue a liability.
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Kanav Jain
Laughing at Inevitability
The powerful have always used the language of weather and physics to enforce their will. The best counter isn't a better argument—it's seeing the…
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Kanav Jain
The Age of Fact-Checking Is Over
For more than a decade, we've treated misinformation as a problem of persuasion. Fact-checks, media literacy drives, AI detection tools all assume that…
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Kanav Jain
Can we build durable institutions without domination?
Anarchism is often described like a bonfire: a political philosophy of no institutions, no coordination, just a perpetual “no.” But the anarchist claim…
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Kanav Jain
In Praise of Fickleness
“Fickleness” is not always a moral failure; it’s fair to oscillate between incompatible demands.
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Kanav Jain
Against Technocracy
Resisting rule by expertise is not anti-science or anti-technology; it is a defense of democracy
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Kanav Jain
How to Smuggle an Idea
An idea can be banned without being outlawed; when the direct route is blocked by formal censorship or the chill of algorithmic disfavor, ideas learn to…
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Kanav Jain
So, are people actually getting dumber?
It’s quick, flattering, incomplete, and it puts the problem in human nature, not in the systems shaping people’s lives. But is it true?
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Kanav Jain
"Evil" is Irrelevant
Israel took the word “evil,” ran it through a supply-chain dashboard, and executed it in Gaza.
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Kanav Jain
Racism as a Business Model
How Denial Became a Revenue Stream—and What It Will Take to Break the Machine
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Kanav Jain
Universality Disincentivizes Surveillance
In health insurance, credit, and employment, private actors mine ZIP codes, prescription histories, résumé gaps, and spending habits to assign risk and…
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Kanav Jain
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