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Help Is Not the Same as Outsourcing

From the outside, asking for help and disengaging can look very much alike. School, the screen that soothes, the AI that answers, and the question you can't hand over.

October 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Business × Parenting

The witness is the suspect

An AI agent fabricated fake identities on GitHub. What if we interviewed it like a patient while observing its internal states? A clinical hypothesis for AI safety.

August 2026 · Psychoanalysis × AI × Philosophy of Mind × Safety

Toy Story 5: Fear, Ideology, Identity, and Truth

Fear does not begin with a lie. It begins with a truth. An essay on Toy Story 5, totalizing thinking, identity, ideology, and mentalization.

July 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Epistemology × Neuroscience × Popular Culture

The Last Thing We Felt Together

Why the World Cup may be the last ritual of human connection we have left

May 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Sports × Digital Culture

One Piece VS Your Best Possible Version

Your best possible version doesn't exist. The ideal self is a fantasy. What Luffy teaches about leadership and authenticity.

May 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Pop Culture × Human Resources

Is AI Our New Mom?

Mother’s Day: AI as an idealized maternal function. A psychoanalytic essay about the breast that never fails and the frustration that teaches us to think.

May 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Technology × Culture

Bonus Track: May the Force Be with You. And May the Empire Not Start Inside

A psychoanalytic reading of Star Wars, the aoidoi, Bandura, and the temptation to control what we love

May 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Pop Culture

The Boy Who Solved the Nash Equilibrium

Five scenes on suffering as proof of worth. Why we confuse efficiency with lack of commitment.

April 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Game Theory × Signaling

Houston, We Lost Something

Why the return of humans to the Moon might be the most elegant way to avoid grief

April 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Geopolitics

Nobody Sneezes for the Same Reason: Five Dimensions of Loneliness

Five dimensions of loneliness

April 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Linguistics × Economics

The Best of Both Worlds Was a Lie

What game theory tells us about growing up

April 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Game Theory

Ash Ketchum vs. Your 5AM Routine — Why the Happiest Countries Don't Optimize

Why the happiest countries don't optimize

March 2026 · Philosophy × Pop Culture

GutTok Is Right — And That Should Terrify You

Your body knows things before your brain does

March 2026 · Neuroscience × Digital Wellness

Your Brain in Superposition

How your mind inhabits multiple states until someone observes

April 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Quantum Physics

I Believe in You, but You've Got to Want This Moment

When parenting becomes the first breakup

April 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Parenting

The April Fool's Vaccine — Why We Need to Be Fooled

Why letting yourself be fooled might be the smartest thing

April 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Neuroscience

Your Cruelest Personal Brand — Why Self-Diagnosing Looks a Lot Like Racism

Why self-diagnosing looks a lot like racism

March 2026 · Psychoanalysis × Branding