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Ideas, essays & research

Reflections on human agency, philosophy, culture and transformation — with the research notes and lectures behind them.

  1. Alex Duchenchuk on a balcony at dusk above a busy port, cargo ships and container stacks below

    EssayHuman Systems

    $200 Oil and the Geography of Resilience

    A world of expensive energy would redraw more than the price of a ticket. It would force us to reconsider what makes a place resilient, and why familiar destinations are not automatically safer ones.

    3 min read

  2. Alex Duchenchuk in a data-centre aisle between rows of server racks lit in blue

    EssayHuman Systems

    The AI Divide: Who Owns the Tools?

    AI may widen inequalities not only through income, but through control over the infrastructure of thinking and work. The divide is between people who can shape their tools and those who can only rent them.

    3 min read

  3. Alex Duchenchuk holding a transparent tablet showing a connected diagram, suspended geometric light frames behind him

    EssayHuman Systems

    The Real AI Advantage Is in the Workflow

    The real advantage of AI is not in asking better questions. It is in making AI part of how we think, communicate, and work every day.

    4 min read

  4. A desk at dusk with an open handwritten notebook and a pen, a lit city and river beyond the window

    EssayHuman Systems

    AI as Infrastructure for Thinking

    Why the most valuable use of AI may be building systems that help us think more clearly, rather than asking models to think for us.

    4 min read

  5. Alex Duchenchuk at a steel table in front of glass towers reflecting a city skyline

    EssayHuman Systems

    Human Systems and the Limits of Control

    Organisations are not machines. What systems thinking can and cannot offer people who want to change them.

    2 min read

To think independently is to know where each of your beliefs came from.
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