# No One's Happy

> Learn, evolve, and get better at working together. Essays on technology, work, and society.

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## Articles

- [With AI, The Oddly Specific Survives](https://nooneshappy.com/article/with-ai-the-oddly-specific-survives.md): The Devil is in the details. A shallow look at how your voice gets into AI, and why I believe it's worth it.
- [How AI May Impact CMS Architecture](https://nooneshappy.com/article/how-ai-may-impact-cms-architecture.md): Enterprises pay platform prices for a content database with a UI bolted on. AI removes the reason that bundle ever existed.
- [Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach](https://nooneshappy.com/article/kernel-anti-cheat-is-an-overreach.md): Modern PC games make you install a ring-0 anti-cheat driver you can't audit.
- [The Demoralization of The White-Collar Worker](https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-demoralization-of-the-white-collar-worker.md): The implicit contract — work hard, stay employed, build a life — is broken.
- [Data Brokers Part 2: Surveillance Pricing](https://nooneshappy.com/article/data-brokers-surveillance-pricing.md): For most of commerce a price was a single public number, the same for everyone who looked at it. Surveillance pricing replaces it with a private one — set not by what a thing costs but by what a model believes you, in particular, will pay. A history of how that number came apart, why the practice survives only in concealment, and why it falls hardest on those least able to refuse.
- [Data Brokers Part 1: Unregulated Forensic Analysis](https://nooneshappy.com/article/data-brokers-unregulated-forensic-analysis.md): An industry of hundreds of registered data brokers maintains files on every American adult; identity graphs bind the files to people with near-total coverage; a marketplace layer makes the result queryable by any company with a cloud account; models convert the files into predictions that increasingly price everything you buy.
- [The AI Bubble](https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-ai-bubble.md): The AI buildout is the largest capital expenditure in the history of the technology industry. The financial structure holding it together has a name.
- [Appearing Productive in The Workplace](https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace.md): AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
- [Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible](https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible.md): Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.

## Guides

- [A Very Basic Framework for Apps to Avoid](https://nooneshappy.com/guide/a-very-basic-framework-for-apps-to-avoid.md): A category-based guide to identifying mobile apps that are likely to exploit your data, with documented enforcement actions and practical alternatives.