The environment is the drug: Silicon Valley and the engineering of experience (2/3)
The Observer Problem - Part II: from Burning Man to consciousness hacking, how Silicon Valley engineers the state of the observer.
ex-journalist in Israel and the West Bank ex-intelligence operative (HUMINT) Reconverted: entrepreneur. FR/EN/HE/IT/PT Expert in Strategic Intelligence and communication, human behavior, the Grey Zone
The Observer Problem - Part II: from Burning Man to consciousness hacking, how Silicon Valley engineers the state of the observer.
The Observer Problem - Part I: Meditation, altered states, ritual and the strange return of the sacred to cognitive security.
What being good under pressure can hide from others, and from yourself.
Fauda, October 7 and the limits of "narrative warfare"
What an empty boat in Portugal and an explosion in Gaza reveal about certainty laundering, narrative warfare and why evidence rarely changes what people choose to believe.
Europe is preparing its citizens for disruption. The emergency kit is the least interesting part.
Frames of reference, cognitive mobility, and the ability to move between realities
Most influence operations don't attack cognition.
How representations of the future start moving the present before they come true.
Years ago, I was running a human source. Every time we met, he gave me accurate information: the names were correct, the meetings really happened, the documents were genuine. My
AOC, changing incentives, and how to read a political reversal
What the leverage people choose, the lies they don't need, and the contradictions they create can reveal about them