Thinking Pieces & Essays
Design, technology, and the philosophy of how things work. Deconstructing the systems that shape everyday life.
Read the essays ↗// WRITING & STORIES
Ideas, anomalies, and consequences.
Essays about the systems that shape our world, plus fiction about what happens when those systems break.
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Published on SubstackScience Fiction
Anomalies, paradoxes, and unfamiliar rules. Stories that ask what happens when an apparently stable system fails.
Read science fiction ↗Literary Fiction & Thrillers
High stakes in the real world, with a focus on perspective, consequence, and friction between people.
Read the stories ↗The common thread
Both the essays and the fiction begin with systems: the visible rules, hidden incentives, interfaces, and assumptions that influence what people do. The essays take those systems apart. The stories push them until something unexpected appears.
New work is published through René Blanco’s Substack ↗.