koanvai

// essays from inside the machine

Beyond the rationality of success

Essays on technology, attention and slow living, from someone who builds the systems and keeps questioning them.

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The chuckle brothers in charge of sacking need their heads wobbled and sent packing. Reactive and lacking any emphasis. Can’t believe they are paid millions for sound knowledgeable decision making. Michael should be proud he tried but the job was too big for him.

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Oh Jensen, I nv ya

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also on Mastodon: @koanvai.com@bsky.brid.gy

seeing · X-E4 street photos, passing through

The busy Coca-Cola sign in SydneyIconic Eiffel TowerNight Stroll in ParisStreet photograph by KoanvaiStreet photograph by KoanvaiStreet photograph by KoanvaiStreet photograph by KoanvaiStreet photograph by KoanvaiStreet photograph by KoanvaiStreet photograph by KoanvaiStreet photograph by KoanvaiStreet photograph by Koanvai

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notes from other worlds

Small notes from the worlds my short stories live in: places, objects, rumours. Never the stories themselves.

~ The skills that defined me snatched meThose who thrive in the misery seldom understand the joy of life2 Nov 2026~ The World that ceases to be Alive yet craves to ThriveThe future that no body wants but expects18 June 2026

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Koanvai is the pen name of a technologist who builds the systems he writes about and isn't always sure he should. A koan is a question you can't solve with logic alone.