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Matthew Clapp

20 Apr 2006 — 1 min read

The Gospel of Lumon: How Corporations Replace Religion

As I watched yet another episode of Severance, I found myself unsettled—not just by its eerie world but by how familiar it felt. Lumon Industries is no ordinary company; it is a cathedral cloaked in fluorescent lights. Its founder, Kier Eagan, looms like a prophet whose words are scripture,

True transformation takes time

A recent article from Bloomberg—AI Will Upend a Basic Assumption About How Companies Are Organized by Azeem Azhar—is like many in a long string of articles that have pumped up the disruption and transformation being brought on by artificial intelligence. Azhar also wrote the 2021 Financial Times Best

Ancient Mathematical and Scientific Discoveries

Our ancestors weren't slouches. They cracked mathematical mysteries and built mind-bending devices that sometimes vanished from human memory, only to be reinvented millennia later.

From Prosperity to Polarization: A Timeline of America’s Political Fracturing

The United States entered the 1990s with strong economic momentum, only to witness a gradual erosion of public trust in institutions, the rise of anti-government extremism, and the mainstreaming of conspiratorial thinking. I look at the interconnected events, policies, and cultural shifts that transformed the nation's trajectory over

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The Gospel of Lumon: How Corporations Replace Religion

True transformation takes time

Ancient Mathematical and Scientific Discoveries

From Prosperity to Polarization: A Timeline of America’s Political Fracturing