Clearing the Signal
March 2026 · 26 min read
On withdrawal, flourishing, and the difference between light that is generated and light that is borrowed
Writing
Do Not Strike the Arm
Four essays on perception, formation, and the willful arm
The complete manuscript is now available as a compiled short book.
The Second Practice
April 2026 · 8 min read
On finishing what you start thinking. Why the gap between perception and output is where most depth gets lost.
The Formation Problem
April 2026 · 15 min read
On how childhood shapes the capacity for depth, and why some elite systems suppress it.
On Not Striking the Arm
May 2026 · 10 min read
On what to do when your will meets a system that wants to suppress it.
Expectation Inflation: LLMs, Knowledge Work and Human Agency
Benjamin G. Voyer & Vishal Kapadia
ESCP Business School Impact Paper (working paper) · December 2024 · posted on SSRN, September 2025
On how LLMs raise productivity expectations while shifting human work toward judgment, critical thinking, and creativity rather than information processing.
WikiRate.org – Leveraging Collective Awareness to Understand Companies' Environmental, Social and Governance Performance
Mills, R. et al. (incl. Vishal Kapadia)
Peer-reviewed conference paper · INSCI 2016 (Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science) · 2016
Describes the quantitative metrics system built to turn unstructured corporate ESG disclosure into open, comparable, queryable data.
Wikirate: a claims-based system for collaboratively reviewing corporate behaviour
Vishal Kapadia, Ethan McCutchen, Lucia Lu, Philipp Kühl
Peer-reviewed conference paper · OpenSym 2014 (ACM, International Symposium on Open Collaboration) · 2014
A claims-based system for collaboratively reviewing corporate behaviour: the open architecture for crowdsourcing and structuring company ESG data.
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