Signal Garden
Curated signals
A tended collection of outside signals — essays, videos, talks, books, and arguments that keep returning as useful patterns.
New York City Off Tech
A sharp and funny conversation about Gen Z’s backlash against Big Tech, smartphone addiction, and the hunger for analog social life. It resonates with Counter Infrastructure because it treats technology refusal not as nostalgia, but as a strategy for reclaiming attention, public space, and human connection. My version is not anti-tech — it is tech with hygiene.
The Technocapitalist Ideology
A critique of the Silicon Valley belief that technological innovation naturally equals progress. This signal matters because it challenges the assumption that private markets and startup logic can solve every public problem. Counter Infrastructure begins where technology stops being worshipped as destiny and starts being governed as a tool.
A Framework for Action
Nate Hagens moves from diagnosis into action: nervous-system grounding, finding trusted networks, and building local capacity before crisis intensifies. This belongs here because Counter Infrastructure is not just critique — it is practice, coordination, and preparation. The useful move is from “the system is broken” to “what can we build while there is still time?”
Veganism Could Save the Planet. Here’s Why.
A signal around food systems, ecological pressure, and the ethics of everyday infrastructure. I include it because Counter Infrastructure is not only digital — it also lives in consumption, land use, bodies, and the systems that make some choices easier than others. Food is infrastructure with a pulse.
Henri Bergson: Life, Duration, and Intuition
A clear entry point into Bergson’s philosophy of duration, intuition, memory, and creative evolution. This signal matters because it gives language to something the default internet constantly attacks: lived time. Counter Infrastructure needs technical systems, but it also needs a philosophy of attention, presence, and becoming.
The AI Horseshoe
A debate about AI data centers, energy demand, local opposition, climate tradeoffs, and the strange coalitions forming around technological acceleration. This is useful because it refuses easy categories. The question is not simply whether AI is good or bad, but who bears the costs, who gets the benefits, and what kind of infrastructure gets built in whose name.