
Path Dependent / 01 · Fiction
The Prince
He offers her power.
His fee can wait.
An adviser who deals in numbers meets a leader who deals in attention. Across ten conversations, resentment becomes a movement and the distance from revolution keeps closing.
65 pages · 10 conversations · Illustrated
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The complete story, with Karim’s original illustrations. A small book about what people will do for power, and what they do once they have it.


About Karim
Karim Galzahr is an investor and economist, and a co-founder and host of The Aiomic Age. His work follows the money and the mechanisms behind the AI era, drawing on economics, physics and statistics.
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Path Dependent explores futures that are still available to us. Each story follows choices and their consequences. Further pieces are planned about once a month.
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