Observing the systems that remove the signal.
We live in a moment where everything can be summarized, optimized, and automated. Our mission is not to stop it.
It is to document its inevitable outcome with clarity, data, and the occasional joke. Recursive mediocrity scales.
We track how meaning degrades through systems.
We publish research, data, and cultural autopsies.
We use humor because screaming is exhausting.
Someone has to.
Every idea, eventually, becomes its summary. Omission scales better than understanding.
On the steady debasement of the calendar: how the modern thirty-minute meeting acquired the informational density of the modern hour-long meeting from 2014, and what we should do about it. (Nothing. We should do nothing.)
A taxonomy of metrics that exist primarily to be looked at. With definitions, identification tips, and the precise emotional function each metric performs for the team that ships it.
A market analysis of what happens when every layer of an organization is compensated to compress the layer below it. With charts. The charts are real. The compression is also real.
ellipsys media is a publication about the systems that summarize, compress, and remove the signal. The first issue exists because somebody has to keep the receipts.
Reports, essays, data points, and the occasional warning. Sent on Sundays, when you can still pretend you’ll read it.