https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/categories/essay/Recent content in Essay on MarginaliaHugoen-usSun, 08 Nov 2026 12:40:00 +0800https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/future-of-the-firm/Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:40:00 +0800https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/future-of-the-firm/中文版是这篇文章的默认版本。 阅读中文版 → This English page stays available at this URL; the Chinese version is the one we maintain first. In one line: two people of twenty-four start managing teams whose staff are machines. All three arrangements are already happening, and nobody has filled in the column for the extra floor. 1. Two people of twenty-four# Every org chart I have seen is printed on A4, landscape, three ranks of boxes squeezed into the height.https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/attention-is-finite/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:02:00 +0800https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/attention-is-finite/中文版是这篇文章的默认版本。 阅读中文版 → This English page stays available at this URL; the Chinese version is the one we maintain first. In one line: attention is the one thing nobody can print more of, so watching became a trade, and both the watcher and the watched end up wondering how much of themselves is still theirs. The stairwell in my building has a lamp that answers to noise. On the way up, at the third landing, you stamp a foot or clap once and it comes on.https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/singularity-three-ledgers/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:40:00 +0800https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/singularity-three-ledgers/中文版是这篇文章的默认版本。 阅读中文版 → This English page stays available at this URL; the Chinese version is the one we maintain first. In one line: allegedly we are already inside the singularity. I will not argue about the word. I want to redo the three sums the argument rests on — who writes the code, how cheap intelligence has become, and what is left in the human column. A note on method: this is a reading note.https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/deep-focus-one-hour/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:52:00 +0800https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/deep-focus-one-hour/中文版是这篇文章的默认版本。 阅读中文版 → This English page stays available at this URL; the Chinese version is the one we maintain first. In one line: the useful thing in the essay is not “use your phone less” — it is a budget you can compute: one hour a day, 365 hours a year, 45 full working days, all of them spent on your own project. Scope first. The source is Dan Koe’s long post How to unlock extreme focus on command, published on X on 19 January 2026; I read the full body.https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/meaningless-life-anger/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:50:00 +0800https://icorer.com/icorer_blog/en/posts/essay/meaningless-life-anger/中文版是这篇文章的默认版本。 阅读中文版 → This English page stays available at this URL; the Chinese version is the one we maintain first. In one line: meaninglessness is not bad news, and neither is the con. What has to be budgeted is strength — anger is physical work, and there is less of it every year. 1. Uncover the floor first# tap to enlarge Life has no meaning, and it arrived by accident.