The ReThink

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There's too much here to catch up on.

The whole map fits on 1 page.

The ReThink is a body of work with a single spine: every economic idea you inherited was built for a world of scarcity, and AI is quietly changing the premise. This page is the map — what the project is, how it works, and where each room of the house is.

The question underneath everything

Every essay, brief, and tool here asks the same question of a different inherited assumption: is this still true, or is it just old? Not "burn it down," not "nothing ever changes" — just the patient work of picking an idea up and turning it over in the light.

The method — 3 steps, no skipping

  1. Truth first. Real history, real trade-offs, real sources. Nothing airbrushed.
  2. Turn it in the light. What was the assumption for, and does its reason still hold?
  3. Hope on top. Only after the truth is paid in full — what becomes possible?

The longer version — including the short list of things we will never do — lives on the about page.

The rooms of the house

  1. Nº 01

    The essays

    8 long walks so far. Each one picks up an assumption the scarcity age handed us — the pie is fixed, work equals worth, someone has to lose — and turns it over in the light.
  2. Nº 02

    ReThink Policy

    5 briefs, no jersey. Each steelmans the strongest honest case from the left AND the right before offering a reframe — proposals to debate, never decrees.
  3. Nº 03

    The book

    The Warmth Left Over — 12 short chapters from real physics to real meaning, being finished now. The opening chapter will be free to readers of the letters.
  4. Nº 04

    The tools

    Instruments, not verdicts: a dashboard of sourced curves and a run-your-own-numbers planner, being built in the workshop now. Honest status inside.
  5. Nº 05

    About

    Why re-examine these assumptions now, what firstfruits means, and the short list of things we will never do. Hold us to it.

3 ways to walk in

1 · Start at the beginning.

The first walk sets the table for everything else — 2 old rivals, 1 pie, and what happens to a 10,000-year knife fight when the pie starts learning to bake itself.

Why Can't Communism and Capitalism Be Friends?

2 · Start with work.

If the question keeping you up is what happens to my job — start with the honest wake-up call, then the policy brief that walks both parties' answers around the block.

3 · Start with money and ownership.

A 3-stop walk around the biggest design decision of the transition: a fair look at the newborn investment accounts, the cross-examination that presses every hard question about them, and the brief that asks whether the real choice is income or ownership.

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