To pick up the thread from my previous article (“Bio-brutalism and Connivances”), I want to take a moment here to double-down and expand on my idea of iterative layers of improvement.

True to my obsession with fast execution and zero-dissipation feedback — the hallmark of the flexible, iteration-unblocked entrepreneurial mindset — I’ll cut straight to the chase.

As you’re well aware, we live in a world that never stops growing, stacking resources that don’t just increase in quantity but in quality with every new revolution. Previous technologies keep unlocking ever-deeper access to what human consciousness and intelligence can actually achieve. But have you ever stopped to ask: “What if the last leap forward just… collapses?” That’s exactly why the world feels more anxious by the day: the gigantic house of cards we call civilization has turned into a tower so tall we can’t even see the ground anymore.

People are freaking out. We’ve got eco-anxiety, problems no animal should ever have to deal with, paradigm shifts happening millisecond by millisecond. Not a day goes by without yesterday’s limit getting smashed. At this point, the only evolutionary adaptations that actually matter are flexibility (emotional resilience, open-mindedness, creativity) and raw processing speed — not mathematical, but organizational and anticipatory. Those who lack either get left in the dust. Those who enjoy a statistically insane asymmetric edge rocket to the top of the tops. We’re watching people hit billion-dollar caps before 30, crypto investors turn into millionaires overnight, and hubs pop up wherever capital is worshipped and the perks are juicy enough for the mobile elite who switch countries like the rest of us switch apartments. The rules of the game have changed. The scale has changed.

This creates and supercharges an injustice that always existed, but now it’s in your face, impossible to ignore — and above all, it multiplies the speed of wealth creation by orders of magnitude. What used to take at least one lifetime, if not several generations, just a century ago now happens in the blink of an eye.

That’s why the entrepreneur/creator mindset is glorified today: it directly serves the critical imperatives of our era — capital generation, technological innovation, relentless growth.

Which brings us to the scenario where the extreme mental gymnastics required to keep moving forward also opens the door to cascading failures in a fragile system: every new innovation sits on top of the previous one. No wonder the general population is losing faith. How are you supposed to embrace the latest thing when you have no idea where the last one is actually taking us?

It’s a high-wire act where AI is about to step in to meet the massive demand for automation and trust — building a system that will think for itself before touching the real world. But we’re still in the very early, stumbling infancy of this new societal paradigm.

So what do we do? Hope the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down all at once. Hope it holds together until the next wave of technological fossilization — the phase where what we’ve built finally gets etched into eternity and becomes a future heritage instead of a crystallized, impulsive obsession that’s useless to the generations that come after us.

Let’s build the world that will actually matter for tomorrow’s world.