Conceptual frameworks and original research.

Long-form research on the forces reshaping markets, identity, and infrastructure. Each paper synthesizes critical theory, psychology, and market data into interactive, citable frameworks. These are not summaries. They are arguments.

Research Dossier
AI Economics & Builder Psychology
The Two Clocks
Every AI-literate builder is anxious about the same moment — but they're reading different clocks. One says the subsidy window is closing. The other says the price of intelligence keeps falling. Verified data says both, and neither is the clock that matters.
AI Pricing FOMO-AI Inference Economics Builder Anxiety
June 2026
Research Dossier
Privacy & Consent Infrastructure
Consent Theater
Cookie banners, privacy policies, and opt-in flows are not a rights framework. They are a performance of a rights framework. How GDPR created bureaucratic theater that trained users to click "Accept All" as a reflex.
GDPR Compliance Dark Patterns Privacy Policies Consent Infrastructure
March 2026
Research Dossier
Identity & Self-Commodification
Persona Economicus
Personal branding didn't democratize self-expression — it financialized it. When identity becomes a growth strategy, the self doesn't express — it performs, and the performance eventually becomes the person.
Creator Economy Self-Commodification Algorithmic Identity Burnout
March 2026
Conceptual Framework
Surveillance Capitalism & Digital Agency
Homo Cyber Economicus
When the algorithm knows what you'll buy before you do, who is the economic agent? A framework for understanding how surveillance capitalism doesn't respond to consumer demand — it manufactures it.
Surveillance Capitalism Behavioral Economics Digital Agency Instrumentarianism
February 2026