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Introducing Muse
The personal surveillance goblin that understands your goals, your habits, your relationships, your weak spots, your shopping patterns, your attention span and every dumb fucking thing you do online.
Then it works 24/7 to collect more
But don’t call it spyware.
That sounds bad.
Call it a ✨personal agent✨
“Slopportunity is everywhere for those with the eyes to see.”
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More people will become multi-hyphenates with AI. Recently, I saw a realtor drop an AI-written, self-published thought leader book on being a motivated leader. Held a book launch party and all. I came across a BBQ restaurant owner with a Suno-led music career who has millions of plays. Slopportunity is everywhere for those with the eyes to see.
this website is total nuts
12+ years of designing.
Somehow, I never had a website that felt like me.
So I finally fixed that.
rahul.design/ is live.
Less a portfolio, more like walking into my head for five minutes. Go poke around.
If you're building something that deserves great design, I want to be part of it, DM's are open.
Seneca also noticed it in his students.
The ones who read everything and wrote nothing became the most sophisticated critics of people who wrote.
He said they were mistaking the map for the destination and then blaming the destination for being far.
Jung called it the shadow.
The parts of the self that are denied expression don't go dark quietly, they go sideways.
The inner spirit that demands expression.
He believed the creative daimon, when ignored, becomes a tyrant.
The person who refuses to serve it consciously begins to be ruled by it unconsciously. The bitterness, the envy, the paralysis are all different manifestations of the daimon.
When the energy turns destructive:
- A person who should be writing starts overthinking.
- A person who should be building starts criticising everyone else’s companies.
- A person who should be making art starts becoming bitter toward people who are visible.
Whatever you will refuse to create will turn against you.
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.” -- Abraham Maslow
Long before taste meant aesthetics, it meant survival.
It taught early humans what to eat, what to spit out, and what the tribe could trust. Taste, in its most literal sense.
Once survival became easier, humans started recognizing patterns beyond food.
Which path usually leads to water?
Which stranger can be trusted?
Which season is coming?
Taste became judgment.
Thousands of correct judgments became intuition.
When a master "just knows," you are watching thousands of micro-decisions collapse into one signal.
It looks like instinct but it's memory, experience, and pattern recognition fused into something faster than thought.
Coming to the industrial age, when factories could mass produce products it created abundance of choice and making the right choice became a differentiator.
Choice made taste matter. That's when taste became a competitive advantage. Brands, typography, industrial design, architecture, and fashion all became ways to stand out.
And when a group of people choose one thing over another—again and again, the choices leave a mark and this exact preference, getting repeated becomes a movement.
Streetwear chose skateboards, bold graphics, local codes, and clothes that meant something before they looked expensive. Taste, with consequences = culture.
Till this point, scarcity used to be material: food, shelter, clothing.
Now it is attention.
The world produces more than any human can consume, and the only defence is the ability to say no, quickly, without guilt, without explanation.
Taste is what decides which inputs reach you, and which never get a chance.
And now, machines can filter too.
But something still separates human judgment from machine prediction.
Machines can optimise, but they cannot taste
An algorithm predicts what you would click on but taste involves values, contradiction, and the willingness to be wrong on purpose.
Machines averages the past while taste ruthlessly discriminate against it.
Algorithms reward engagement, consistency and mimicry while taste rewards difference, restraint, and depth.
The two systems are pointed in opposite directions. High taste performs badly in the short term and dominates in the long one. The feed will punish it but the history rewards it.
Taste Is The Last Unautomatable Advantage.
