Writing
Notes, essays, and research from the lab.
Essays
A Bonding Curve for Party Tickets
May 5, 2026
What happens when you let a curve, not a person, decide what a party ticket costs, and use a daily free-ticket lottery to turn pricing into a reason to keep showing up.
Research
Seven Thinkers on Mediated and Hidden Power
Draft
May 28, 2026
A reading companion for the ariel-app essay: how McLuhan, Latour, Marx, Debord, Foucault, Deleuze, and Han each illuminate the claim that platforms are never neutral.