‘Fake it till you make it’ fails: a lesson from complexity theory
Collapse is a misunderstood word. Most people imagine fire and chaos, apocalypse! But collapse, as Tainter showed, is rarely violent. It's what happens when a system becomes too
Collapse is a misunderstood word. Most people imagine fire and chaos, apocalypse! But collapse, as Tainter showed, is rarely violent. It's what happens when a system becomes too
Conversation with Mehdi Nemri - Futurist, Mathematician
In 2020, Peter Thiel wrote an email that resurfaced last week, right after the election of democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York. “If one has no stake
I've been monitoring radical groups for years. At first, I did what was asked from me. Focusing on the obvious: the men shouting, fighting, posturing. That's
On October 28, 2025, Palantir and NVIDIA announced a partnership: Palantir's Ontology framework will integrate NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated computing, CUDA-X libraries and Nemotron open models. Today is
In the Grey Zone, patterns reveal themselves loooong before they become obvious. And one of the most important (and misunderstood) patterns of the last decade is this: the sacred is
The ethical dilemma of writing in the age of attention.
Reflections on identity, modernity, and the art of coherence.
When I was a journalist, I noticed something strange. I was in places where every action could mean life or death - yet what people feared most was being unseen.
In the last months, as part of my work monitoring radical groups, I've focused less on events and more on language. Because language ALWAYS moves first. And what
Weeks ago, I published a global perception questionnaire. I didn't want to study what people think. I wanted to understand what they sense. The method: intentionally raw No
You think you want transparency? Try reading a real intelligence report... you would not sleep for a week!