The Information Diet Is the Practice
Why a yoga teacher reads three newspapers a day, and what algorithmic feeds quietly took from all of us.
The Future of Yoga Economies
A companion to The Digital Caste and The Architecture of Generosity. The conversation about yoga economics runs the same loop. Teachers can’t make a living. Studios can’t stay open. Students can’t afford classes. Everyone assumes the problem is price — find the right number and the system works. It doesn’t. And price isn’t why. The deeper problem is that yoga communities are trying to operate inside an economic framework designed for scalable products. Yoga isn’t one. It’s a discipline transmitted through relationships, repetition, and time. That makes it profoundly valuable. It also makes it economically awkward in a system that rewards growth, efficiency, and scale. The pattern is predictable. A studio takes on significant overhead — prime real estate, renovations, staff, marketing. That forces prices…
The Architecture of Generosity
A companion to The Digital Caste People talk about yoga economics as if the central question is price. Class rates. Membership tiers. What a teacher should earn. Price matters — but it isn’t the variable that governs everything else. Overhead is. Overhead determines what prices are even possible. And once prices are fixed, the culture of a space starts to bend around them. I learned this slowly. Like most teachers, I spent years looking for the price that felt fair — one that worked for the student waking up at 5am on a teacher’s salary and also for the one who’d just come from the office. Same discipline. Different bank accounts. Eventually it became clear: this wasn’t a pricing problem at all. In many yoga…
MJH INC: Building a Personal Sovereign Internet
From chatrooms at thirteen to running a world in Ultima Online to building communities for companies — a life spent tending rooms online. Now I’m turning that instinct on my own data: pulling twenty years of my life off the platforms and onto ground I own, and building the habit of micro-journaling in my own garden instead of Meta’s.
Buy Your Milk From Someone You Know
Every untracked transaction is a small act of structural resistance
Every untracked transaction is a small act of structural resistance. From The Digital Caste: Surveillance Capitalism and the Architecture of Permanent Inequality on michaeljoelhall.com
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Concepts: Saṅgha · Sevā · Sthira · Dāna
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The Maze Designer’s Defense
“You could always turn left” is the argument of the maze designer explaining to the rat that it has a choice
The choice to opt out is the choice to accept systematic economic disadvantage. From The Digital Caste: Surveillance Capitalism and the Architecture of Permanent Inequality on michaeljoelhall.com
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Concepts: Svātantrya · Bandha · Pratītyasamutpāda · Mokṣa
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Green Funerals
Choose funeral options with transparency and local care—prioritize honest data, ecosystem impact, and rituals that serve grief over glossy promises.
We love a redemptive ending. The body returns to soil, a tree grows from the grave, death becomes compost. Green funerals promise exactly this: natural burials, human composting, alkaline hydrolysis, even those biodegradable pods that turn you into a sapling. It’s beautiful. It’s also complicated. Hannah Gould and Georgina Robinson wrote something sharp about this in Aeon. They’re not against ecological burial—they’re against the way it gets sold. The marketing is sleek. The data is often thin. Some of these technologies are still aspirational, others oversimplify genuine trade-offs.
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Concepts: Anicca · Pratityasamutpada · Aparigraha · Satya
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The Digital Poorhouse
Automated systems don’t remove human bias—they move it, and they hide it from view
Automated systems don’t remove human bias they move it, and they hide it from view. I grew up in small-town America. The kind of place where you knew the person behind the counter at the hardware store and bought your milk from someone whose name you could actually remember. It wasn’t romantic — it was just how commerce worked. You exchanged money for goods, and nobody was quietly adjusting your price based on what phone you carried or how long you lingered in the dairy aisle. That world is vanishing.
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Concepts: Avidyā · Ahiṃsā · Viveka · Saṃskāra
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When the System Treats You Like Data
Pratyahara isn’t about escaping the world—it’s about reclaiming agency over what gets in
There’s a pattern running through this week that has nothing to do with asana. It’s about what happens when your nervous system becomes a data point—and what yoga practice offers in response.Start with the divide between those who build algorithmic systems and those who get processed by them. One group sets parameters. The other gets reduced to inputs and outputs. Then look at Gen Z women drowning in anxiety—forty percent wanting to leave the country, a third anxious almost all the time. Economic precarity, climate doom, and the relentless hum of being constantly online.
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Concepts: Pratyahara · Pranayama · Asana · Sadhana
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Coding Elite and Cybertariat
Algorithmic sorting doesn’t just reflect class—it actively produces new forms of social stratification
Jenna Burrell and Marion Fourcade describe an emerging split between what they call the “coding elite” — those who build and control algorithmic systems — and the “cybertariat” — those who are subject to them. This isn’t just a digital divide in the old sense of who has internet access. It’s a divide in who gets to be a subject versus an object in algorithmic systems. The coding elite set the parameters. Everyone else is a data point.
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Concepts: Māyā · Puruṣārtha · Karma · Svabhāva
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