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Contraptions

Janky frameworks and mental models for understanding technology, society, culture, and business from Venkatesh Rao exploring ideas at the margins of coherence

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Cognitive Mercantilism
October 25th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
On Learning to Ride Your Brain
October 24th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Choose Your Own Monster
October 17th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Divergence with a Vengeance
October 4th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Humanism without (All) Humans
September 19th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
EA Safety
September 17th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
September 13th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Our Eukaryotic Moment
September 12th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
The Curiously Playable Universe
September 5th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Walter Mitty Effects in AI Incident Analyses
August 31st, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
August Break
August 1st, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Cognitive Farmsteading
July 28th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Join me in Jamverse
July 24th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Can the (Social) Oobleck Dance?
July 18th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
The Taste Essay
July 12th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)
July 9th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Dead Forest Theory
July 5th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Monitoring the Situation: from 1950s-2020s
July 1st, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Strange Knowledgeability
June 26th, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals
June 22nd, 2026•contraptions.venkateshrao.com