Reading in an age of feeds

Long-form survived the feed. It just learned to compete differently.

Field Notes7 September 20266 min read

The feed optimises for arrival; the essay optimises for staying.

Topics

Why attention became the scarcest resource of the decade
Every platform competes for the same finite hours. We trace how the economics of attention reshaped media — and what it means for anyone trying to be heard.
The quiet return of industrial policy
Governments are picking winners again. The vocabulary changed before the policy did.
What frontier models still cannot reason about
Benchmarks reward pattern-matching. The harder test is judgement under uncertainty.

Long-form survived the feed. It just learned to compete differently.

Field Notes7 September 20266 min read

The feed optimises for arrival; the essay optimises for staying.

Why attention became the scarcest resource of the decade
Every platform competes for the same finite hours. We trace how the economics of attention reshaped media — and what it means for anyone trying to be heard.
The quiet return of industrial policy
Governments are picking winners again. The vocabulary changed before the policy did.
What frontier models still cannot reason about
Benchmarks reward pattern-matching. The harder test is judgement under uncertainty.