Books About Life After Work: UBI, Post-Scarcity and What Comes Next
A reading list on universal basic income, post-scarcity, and what people would actually do if work stopped being mandatory — with honest drawbacks and a real alternative to UBI.
The Best Books on AI and the Future of Work
The strongest books on AI and jobs, organized by the real questions: does automation destroy work on net, what happens to the displaced, who captures the gains, and what to do about it.
If You Liked Abundance, Read These Next
You finished Abundance and you want the next argument. Here are seven real, correctly-dated books on why wealthy societies fail to deliver what they promise — from Seeing Like a State to Why Nations Fail.
Cheap Intelligence: what freedom looks like when labor is free
A ~15,000-word argument that American freedom is already mostly theoretical — and that cheap AI will either fix that or make it permanent. This is the page from the person who wrote it.
The Allocation: a novel about the last human jury
A superintelligent government runs the courts better than we ever did. Then one woman requests a jury — and to try her, the jury has to judge the machine.
Science Fiction About AI Judges and Algorithmic Justice
Fiction about machines making legal and moral decisions about people — nine books, organized by the question each one asks: Can it be fair? Who audits it? What is lost?
Books Like Bobiverse: What to Read After We Are Legion
Nine honestly-curated read-alikes for Bobiverse fans — the ones that actually nail Bob's dry, competent, first-person voice, plus who each one isn't for.
Novels About Societies That Let Algorithms Decide
If you liked Infomocracy, QualityLand, or The Circle, here's the honest shelf: eight real, correctly attributed novels about societies that hand the decisions to the algorithm.
The Best AI Fiction of 2026
A verified, opinionated guide to the best fiction about artificial intelligence — every title real and correctly attributed, with an honest drawback for each.
Books Like Foundation: Where to Go After Asimov
If you finished Foundation and wanted more fiction about predicting and steering entire societies, here are eight real books — with honest drawbacks — organized around the one idea Asimov made unforgettable: psychohistory.
Books of Parables and Wisdom Stories, Sorted by When You Need Them
A curated list of parable and wisdom-story collections drawn from Zen, Sufi, Taoist, Jewish, and folk traditions — not religious instruction — sorted by the situation you're in.
Best Local & Private AI Assistants (2026): Honest Roundup
An honest, technical comparison of local and private AI assistants in 2026 — OpenAGI, Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, GPT4All, and more. Runner vs. assistant