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Assume Maximum Awareness
Stop assuming leadership is ignorant. "Tragic Institutionalism" argues that institutional harm is priced in, and your burnout is the fuel.
Dec 10
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Kanav Jain
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Institutional Apoptosis
We build institutions for every crisis, then forget to give them an off-switch. This piece argues for “institutional apoptosis”: designing governments…
Nov 29
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Kanav Jain
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Engineering Mutuality
Critiquing the myth of self-sufficiency and outlining a new politics of shared dependence, where care, maintenance, and cooperation become the…
Nov 10
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Kanav Jain
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Variance ≠ Deviance
We have a deep-seated instinct to punish what doesn’t fit. Here's how data, management, and moral culture pathologize deviation.
Nov 6
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Kanav Jain
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Puncture the Cleanroom!
"Sterile control" makes systems fragile. Why reason must move from purity to porosity, embracing error, feedback, and accountability to survive.
Nov 5
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Kanav Jain
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To Be is To Be Maintained
A new framework for understanding persistence. This essay redefines stability, arguing that justice is the allocation of repair and proving collapse is…
Nov 1
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Kanav Jain
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Are You Usable Again Yet? (Clearance Culture)
When "okay" stops being a feeling and becomes a clearance code, care collapses into compliance. A new essay on "clearance culture" and the ethics of…
Oct 30
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Kanav Jain
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Vibe-Based Legitimacy (Charismatic Systems)
“Charismatic systems” replace persuasion with smoothness. From social media to AI ethics dashboards, design now governs through affect. This essay…
Oct 27
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Kanav Jain
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The Pyrrhic Condition
Hospitals, platforms, universities, and economies all improve the metrics that define success while quietly eroding the conditions that make those…
Oct 19
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Kanav Jain
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Per What? The Denominator Is the Doctrine
The moral geometry of measurement, and how to read the metrics that lie without lying.
Oct 18
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Kanav Jain
We need to need fewer heroes
When a society, an institution, or even a piece of software continually produces heroes, it offers clear evidence of a broken architecture.
Oct 16
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Kanav Jain
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The Right to Fuck Up
We replaced repair with disposal. It’s time to build a more human world.
Oct 9
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Kanav Jain
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