Peter Evans-Greenwood
@peter.evans-greenwood.com
Thinking out loud about hybrid agency, crooked paths & coordination without stories. Essays → thepuzzleanditspieces.substack.com
To be fair, they were never going to hire someone with a more 'balanced' view
February 12, 2026 at 9:46 AM
To be fair, they were never going to hire someone with a more 'balanced' view
They have an in house philosopher it seems—a funtionalist obviously—and her stuff it pretty funny
February 11, 2026 at 11:25 PM
They have an in house philosopher it seems—a funtionalist obviously—and her stuff it pretty funny
The essay's point about economics denialism across the spectrum—from postliberal conservatives to progressive populists—is well-taken. When we lose the shared language for discussing tradeoffs, we get worse policies.
February 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The essay's point about economics denialism across the spectrum—from postliberal conservatives to progressive populists—is well-taken. When we lose the shared language for discussing tradeoffs, we get worse policies.
The Discipline of Finding Zeros
Why transformation comes from friction, not prediction
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Why transformation comes from friction, not prediction
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The Discipline of Finding Zeros
The better you optimize, the blinder you become. Starbucks didn't lose to competitors—it optimized away the "third place" until margin collapse forced the obvious. Windfall revenue becomes structural ...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
The Discipline of Finding Zeros
Why transformation comes from friction, not prediction
thepuzzleanditspieces.substack.com/p/the-discip...
Why transformation comes from friction, not prediction
thepuzzleanditspieces.substack.com/p/the-discip...
Technologies Don’t Wait
Evaluating technology adoption in real time
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Evaluating technology adoption in real time
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Technologies Don’t Wait
Transformative technologies don't need decades to find 'use cases.' Watt’s steam engine and McLean’s containers proved their value on Day One. The 50-year lag isn't about the tech getting better—it's ...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Technologies Don’t Wait
Evaluating technology adoption in real time
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Evaluating technology adoption in real time
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LLMs appear to be following the same trajectory. Economists still haven't learned to distinguish transformative GPTs (electricity, steam) from useful tools (expert systems, nail guns).
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Same movie, different decade.
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Same movie, different decade.
LLMs Are Following the Expert Systems Playbook—But the Score Is Different
Your AI assistant spent three weeks helping plan your cloud migration. Then your credentials appeared on the dark web. The forensics revealed something strange: no single conversation showed the…
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January 30, 2026 at 7:24 AM
LLMs appear to be following the same trajectory. Economists still haven't learned to distinguish transformative GPTs (electricity, steam) from useful tools (expert systems, nail guns).
buff.ly/y7FRdrX
Same movie, different decade.
buff.ly/y7FRdrX
Same movie, different decade.
Expert systems became database queries and rule engines—useful narrow tools that nobody thinks about anymore. No productivity revolution materialized.
January 30, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Expert systems became database queries and rule engines—useful narrow tools that nobody thinks about anymore. No productivity revolution materialized.
What Happens in the Gap
The material process of technological transformation—why it takes decades and what actually has to happen during that time.
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The material process of technological transformation—why it takes decades and what actually has to happen during that time.
thepuzzleanditspieces.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happens in the Gap
1875: Whiskey fire in Dublin. 1881: 23 textile mills burn from electrical wiring. 1920: Productivity boom. Between deployment and transformation lies a material process that takes decades. Here's the ...
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January 28, 2026 at 12:27 AM
What Happens in the Gap
The material process of technological transformation—why it takes decades and what actually has to happen during that time.
thepuzzleanditspieces.substack.com/p/what-happe...
The material process of technological transformation—why it takes decades and what actually has to happen during that time.
thepuzzleanditspieces.substack.com/p/what-happe...