Marvin Danig

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I'm Marvin Danig

An Optimist.

For over two decades I've worked at the intersection of software, systems, and entrepreneurship—building products, founding companies, and studying how technology reshapes human organization and economic activity. This site is my small node on the internet: a place to share ideas, experiments, tools, and the occasional lesson extracted from practice.

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Unhobbled Gobble

What happens when the hobbles come off? Revisiting my 2011 prediction on machine awareness through the lens of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness and the accelerating race toward superintelligence.

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The Indian Angel & VC Ecosystem: A Case Study in Collective Shortsightedness

Why India's domestic angel and VC ecosystem — despite impressive headlines — remains structurally naive and globally invisible.

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Us and Them

A night at Roger Waters' 2017 concert in Washington DC — walls, pigs, and everything wrong with America.

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Books Are Not Files

Why treating e-books as files hurts everything we love about books — and why books deserve to be first-class citizens of the web.

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Technology Is Aware, Or Will Be

An essay from 2011 on AI, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and the inevitability of machine awareness — revisited with a modern lens.

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