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Culture

A working lunchbox of rice, beans and meat being warmed on a small kitchen stove in a São Paulo home.

The Marmita

A builder's lunchbox, a cleaner's small kindness — and what they stirred up about effort, fairness, and the accident of where we are born.

6 min read

Four people gathered around a laptop while a clay golem with a prompt inscribed on its forehead watches over them; behind them, rows of identical golems recede into a server-hall horizon.

Nobody Designed the Catastrophe

The failure mode that built the attention economy, and the choice that is being made about AI right now.

22 min read

A father and son in football kit on a Brazilian pitch at dusk, the boy mid-stride with a ball.

Learning Football at Forty-Six

What a football-obsessed eight-year-old in Brazil is teaching his rugby-raised English father about belonging.

9 min read

Paul and Andrew on the first filmed Letter from Brazil.

Too Broke to Fly Home: Six Years Trapped in Brazil

Paul sits down with Andrew — an Australian who came for love, got financially "trapped," and twenty years later still hasn't managed to leave for good.

A clay golem standing in a server aisle, a prompt inscribed on its forehead.

The Golem in the Server Rack

The trillion-dollar bet on hyperscale GPU infrastructure is the wrong bet — and the alternative is one the same companies are already quietly building.

18 min read