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David S. Rogers
@intrepidsr.bsky.social
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I write to map hidden systems, surface inconvenient truths, and link what others don’t see as connected. Part thought leadership, part cultural excavation, part sanity check - with a side of snark. Relax: you’re not crazy - the system is.
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The Help Wanted Illusion open.substack.com/pub/bitterun...

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁.

#Workforce #FutureOfWork #LaborMarket #EconomicReality #CareerTransition #DignityAtWork #YouAreNotAlone #Resilience #JobSearch #Unemployment #SystemicChange
The Help Wanted Illusion
And The Text Messages I Did Not Need
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November 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Biosovereignty open.substack.com/pub/augurnom... #Biosovereignty #Bioethics #DataSovereignty #HumanGenomics #Biotechnology #LifeSciences #PublicHealthPolicy #PrecisionMedicine #HumanRights #DigitalEthics #Sustainability #SystemsThinking #HealthData #EthicalAI #DataPrivacy #FutureOfHumanity
Biosovereignty
The Genetic Commons, Health Data, and the Geopolitics of the Body
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November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Our Neighborhood Spider-Man open.substack.com/pub/quantumt... If the Torah’s God once asked, “Where is your brother?” and Cain replied, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”, Spider-Man answers across the millennia: Yes. I am.

#justice #intervention #spiderman #superhero #MCU
Our Neighborhood Spider-Man
The Mitzvah of Intentional Intervention
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November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Post-Capacity Bureaucracy open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... This election may be fought in speeches and ads, but its outcome will land where every one before it has: on the plate of a state designed not to rule its towns, but to referee them. #newjersey #politics #elections #governor #homerule
Post-Capacity Bureaucracy
Home Rule, State Orchestration and Party Club Dynamics
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October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Handheld Addiction Exchange open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... #gambling #debt #addition #telemetry #userdata #behavior #microtargeting #onlinegambling
Handheld Addiction Exchange
FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM and the Architecture of Behavior Debt
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October 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The Kurdish Diaspora open.substack.com/pub/diaspora... To most Americans, the #Kurds appear suddenly in headlines - as freedom fighters, allies or insurgents & then vanish again. Less understood is that they are the world’s largest #stateless nation, numbering some thirty to forty million people.
The Kurdish Diaspora
Statelessly Planted Where Empires Met Their Limits
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October 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The Hypocrisy of the Holy Left open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... The path to restoring America’s promise will not be found in scorn, but in collaboration - with those who still believe in opportunity, and who have the means to make it real again. #politics #outrage #democrat #bernie #warren #taxes
The Hypocrisy of the Holy Left
When principle surrenders to the profits and glory of perpetual opposition
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October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Nothing New Under the Son open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... #USA #midterms #elections #cycle #society #culture
Nothing New Under the Son
How Every Generation Mistakes Inevitability for Breakthrough
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October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I tend to be the "grown up in the room".
Except when that room is full of grown ups.
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The Underqualified Résumé open.substack.com/pub/michegos... If you’re sick of being told you’re overqualified, good news: I’ve finally solved the problem. It’s fully adaptable, AI-friendly, and emotionally compliant: the Underqualified Résumé.

#jobs #ATS #recruiting #talent #employment #resume
The Underqualified Résumé
A professional document calibrated for today’s hiring expectations: lower
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October 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Institutional Collapse and Renewal open.substack.com/pub/augurnom... #InstitutionalCollapse
#SystemsThinking
#Governance
#SocietalResilience
#Complexity
#CollapseAndRenewal
#Foresight
#Cybernetics
#PostCivilization
#Augurnomics
#InstitutionalDesign
#NetworkedResilience
#CulturalSystems
Institutional Collapse and Renewal
End-stage bureaucracy, networked resilience, and new legitimacy
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October 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Generational Trust in Fracture open.substack.com/pub/augurnom... #InstitutionalCollapse
#SystemsThinking
#Governance
#SocietalResilience
#Complexity
#CollapseAndRenewal
#Foresight
#Cybernetics
#PostCivilization
#Augurnomics
#InstitutionalDesign
#NetworkedResilience
#CulturalSystems
Generational Trust in Fracture
An Augurnomics Readers Companion Essay
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October 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The Failure of Foresight open.substack.com/pub/dunivers...

#Dune #FrankHerbert #Foresight #AIethics #SystemsThinking #Leadership #Prediction #Complexity #Governance #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #Augurnomics #Duniversity #Philosophy
The Failure of Foresight
A Bene Gesserit Lesson on Control, Collapse, and Prophecy
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October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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When Prophecy Becomes Plot open.substack.com/pub/dunivers... Denis Villeneuve’s forthcoming Dune Part Three - the adaptation of #Dune Messiah, the smallest, quietest, and most dangerous of Frank Herbert’s books will not be bad. It will be beautiful. I worry that it will be beautiful instead of true.
When Prophecy Becomes Plot
Why I’m Worried About DV's Upcoming Film "Dune Part Three"
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October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Moses and Superman open.substack.com/pub/quantumt... If Moses represents humanity’s covenant with God, Superman represents humanity’s covenant with itself - the promise that we can become more than what destroys us. Both carry the hope that something saved might yet save the rest.

#superman #moses
Moses and Superman
The Covenant of Power Through Self-Restraint
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October 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The Limits of Knowing open.substack.com/pub/quantumt... We have built entire civilizations on the promise that understanding is control. Yet our tools of conception and expression have limits. And they are not reality, merely descriptors of it.

#QuantumPhysics #Epistemology #Cosmology #Complexity
The Limits of Knowing
When Science Meets the Edge of Its Own Language
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October 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Job Pacing the Ruins
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Batman is the righteous man who cannot be righteous. The mitzvah he performs each night is not clean. It stains him. And yet the world sleeps because he does not.

#batman #justice #darknight #vengence #protection
Job Pacing the Ruins
Batman and the Obligation of Justice
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October 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The Paths Home open.substack.com/pub/bitterun... Homelessness is a function of a system lacking in compassion and coordination. That makes the problem solvable.

#SocialImpact #JusticeReform #HousingIsHealthcare
#DataForGood #SystemicChange #CompassionInLeadership
#PublicHealth #RethinkTheSystem
The Paths Home
How Homelessness Solutions Are Starting to Work
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October 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Hebrews, Hegel & Heroes
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#superhero #WWII #hitler #hegel #jews #diaspora #USA

A real supervillain called superheroes into being - one marching across Europe, a man whose very existence demanded an answer from the #American descendants of Abraham.
Hebrews, Hegel & Heroes
The Dialectic of Power, Exile, and Return
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October 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Where America Fails Its Failures
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#PublicPolicy #Homelessness #Poverty #MentalHealth

America’s greatness was never its wealth, it was its willingness to help people start over. Somewhere along the way we mistook profit for progress & forgot how to catch each other.
Where America Fails Its Failures
A Public Service Plea for Compassion for our Fallen and Discarded
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October 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The Compiler and the Cone
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If we wish to meet a benevolent machine, we must first become the kind of species worthy of building one.
#cybernetics #AI #computing #information #governance #evolution
The Compiler and the Cone
How artificial intelligence inherits, mirrors, and perpetuates the moral DNA of its makers (An Augurnomics Reader’s Companion)
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October 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The Empire Eats Its Young
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#disney #MCU #DCU #starwars #muppets #daredevil #superman #theboyz #peacemaker #pixar
The Empire Eats Its Young
How Disney’s Strangled Pixar, MCU, Star Wars, and the Muppets
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October 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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A Cold Crossing
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A Cold Crossing
Our January Drive From Des Moines to Brighton
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October 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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CA-99: Farms in a Desert
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CA-99: Farms in a Desert
Where the Past Persists Beneath the Sprinklers
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October 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Boolean Souls in America
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Peace has no commercial sponsors.

Peace is not impossible.
It’s just unprofitable.

#Society #Media #Culture #Psychology #Technology #SocialMedia #AttentionEconomy #CriticalThinking #DigitalTransformation #HumanBehavior #democracy #crisis
Boolean Souls in America
How the Algorithm is Collapsing the Wave Function of Democracy
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October 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM