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The Pause Button and Other Modern Pathologies: A Conversation with Ben Lehnert

Starting this newsletter in February was supposed to be an exercise in coherent uselessness. Instead, it opened doors to conversations I never imagined having—including my first podcast in English, where I could finally articulate why our desperate need for certainty is the pathology of our time.

Interlude: the fatigue of certainties

Not knowing has become banned proscribed

Interlude: a summer day

Summer, sea, sun

Interlude: words

Who (and what) writes the words we write

Interlude: a slow gaze

Standing. Still. Sudoku. Sitting. Sleep.

the bullshit economy: why attention extraction requires interpretation without end

We’ve created a thriving marketplace where empty words thrive, where profundity is packaged and sold by the hour, and where the ability to say nothing with great conviction has become a lucrative career path. The attention economy doesn’t merely benefit from bullshit: it structurally depends on it.