Begin with the Misalignment
What if the world feels broken not because people are evil or incompetent, but because the systems we live in no longer fit the humans we have become?
The Age of Misalignment begins with that question.
Modern life is organized through vast institutions, digital networks, economic incentives, political structures, and abstract rules. These systems promise order, efficiency, and progress. Yet more and more, they produce outcomes that feel unstable, contradictory, and strangely disconnected from the people they are supposed to serve.
This project exists to explore that gap.
The Core Idea
Human beings evolved for small groups, direct consequences, and social environments our instincts could understand. But we now live inside systems too large, too fast, and too abstract for those instincts to navigate cleanly.
The result is not simple failure. It is misalignment: between incentives and outcomes, between values and behavior, between what systems claim to do and what they actually produce.
Where to Go Next
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If you have ever sensed that something is deeply off, but lacked the words to explain it, this is the place to begin.
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