AI Culture
Slop, For Whom
A note on the screenshot-driven argument that AI writes slop, and the older, unresolved question hiding inside it.
Index
Reports
10 on file
- Work & Orgs
Meeting Inflation and Other Crimes Against Time
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.)
- Data & Metrics
Vanity Compression: A Field Guide
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.
- AI Culture
The Economic Benefits of Recursive Abstraction
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.
- Manifesto
Welcome. This is a record.
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.