The Great Distortions I — How Reality Gets Bent
Across 16 dispatches, The Great Distortions Series traces how helpful internal models, language, metrics, and narratives can quietly drift into controlling substitutes. The through-line is the same failure mode: coherence feels like truth when contact with reality thins. This matters because the cost is not just error—it’s stalled learning, brittle trust, and decisions that look rational while becoming ungrounded.
Distortion begins when we confuse maps, proxies, and explanations for the world—and stop revising when reality disagrees.
These dispatches sit within a wider archive of ideas about models, feedback, and truth-tracking.
No podcasts have been published in this series yet.
In This Series
Best read in order. Each dispatch builds on the one before it.