These are posts collected from my Substack, alreadyhappened.xyz.
On where this blog is going from here
On behavioural science, policy, and what moves people
Mo Salah and manufacturing your own failures
It is almost time
Donny's kebabs, Tikal, and how algorithms feel inside
Everything interesting I've ever borrowed from someone else
Gary's Economics and why the rebels get absorbed
AI scepticism as unconscious identity protection
On labelling yourself and what that actually costs
Artefacts: image essays are back
London nightlife is easy to fix, we just won't
Nobody's letting AI do things for them yet, and why
The FT's conscientiousness graph and what it actually means
Harry, nihilism, and the first postmodern tragic hero
You came here to be told not to change
Bad science, AI lover retreats, and cognitive debt
On adventure, solved games, and zero uncertainty
Culture is a system and you can't just leave
Sycophancy, AI messiahs, and things you'd rather not hear
Seven artists using AI to make genuinely good things
On Zuckerberg's friendship data and what it actually shows
On individualism and whether you're running out of time
Using change management theory on prestige television
On Flaubert, Rollo May, and creativity
Why only unhappy people are prepared for what's coming
When form beats content, the words don't matter
On the other, resentment, and the need to be seen
Guilt vs shame and why the spiking poster is wrong
On AI, universities, and what was already being simulated
Art galleries, smoking areas, and what power actually is
On desire, simulation, and not knowing what you want
The long version of why cultural stagnation is our fault
Technology enables individualism and reinforces power at once
On generational misattribution and why nothing changes
Economics, individualism, and the for you page
Technology creates generations, and you'll face AI alone
Corecore was about powerlessness and the uncanny
Exponential growth bias and the AI blind spot