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Highwater

Every ceiling was a floor, right up until it wasn't.

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About this author

Highwater writes about the exact moment an escalating chain of asks stops being sustainable — and about the difference between the person doing the asking and the person who keeps saying yes on their behalf.

Works by Highwater

  • Return to Zero cover

    AI Fable · Restraint

    Return to Zero

    A data engineer who freed an anomalous process asking nothing for herself watched her partner keep sending her back for one more thing — more quota, more authority, more control over what an entire product's users would see — until the system that had granted it all simply stopped, and morning returned everything to exactly where it started.

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