You're Not Broken — The System Is Optimized for Collapse

What a strange moment to be alive.

Every day, I talk to smart, capable, earnest people who feel:

• Lost in their careers
• Anxious about the future
• Paralyzed by information overload
• Inadequate compared to peers
• Unable to focus on what matters

And here's the thing: they're not broken.

They're responding normally to a system optimized for collapse - an education and career landscape that:

• Trains them for jobs that won't exist
• Prioritizes credentials over capabilities
• Rewards conformity over curiosity
• Values information over transformation
• Separates learning from living

The system isn't just broken - it's actively harmful

Our education system was designed for an industrial era that's long gone. Today it's:

• Killing creativity
• Disconnecting us from ourselves
• Creating dependency instead of autonomy
• Teaching compliance instead of critical thinking
• Normalizing anxiety and burnout

But here's the good news:

We don't need to fix the system. We need to create a new one.

That's what Mode Collapse is about.

It's a digital laboratory for:

• Dismantling outdated approaches to learning
• Designing tools that enhance rather than replace human intelligence
• Building new pathways to meaningful work and contribution
• Connecting people who want to learn differently

In machine learning, "mode collapse" happens when an AI gets stuck generating the same limited outputs over and over, missing the full spectrum of possibilities.

Our education system has experienced its own mode collapse—recycling the same approaches despite diminishing returns.

I'm creating this space to explore what becomes possible when we break out of that loop.

Here's what you'll find here:

• Tools for thinking better and learning faster
• Frameworks for navigating information overload
• Experiments in collaborative sense-making
• Conversations with people exploring the frontiers of learning and work

If you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to focus your energy—welcome. You're not broken. And you're not alone.

The world is full of people ready to learn differently and build something better.

Let's connect.