<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Kanav Jain</title><description>Essays on AI systems, healthcare workflows, cognitive scarcity, and institutional design.</description><link>https://kanav.net/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Nobody Points &quot;Next Best Action&quot; at Themselves</title><link>https://kanav.net/writing/nobody-points-next-best-action-at-themselves/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kanav.net/writing/nobody-points-next-best-action-at-themselves/</guid><description>Theory of Constraints, career-capital theory, RICE scoring, decision journals, and XP gamification, run as one script instead of five separate books.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>systems</category><category>career</category><category>tools</category></item><item><title>The Official Record Is Late</title><link>https://kanav.net/writing/the-official-record-is-late/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kanav.net/writing/the-official-record-is-late/</guid><description>A structure can be correct on paper and dangerous in practice — here is where that observation came from, and what I’m building now</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>healthcare</category><category>systems</category><category>product</category></item><item><title>Don’t Let Reassurance Do Engineering’s Job</title><link>https://kanav.net/writing/dont-let-reassurance-do-engineering-s-job/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kanav.net/writing/dont-let-reassurance-do-engineering-s-job/</guid><description>Why “we care” substitutes for obligation — and how delay gets disguised as kindness.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>safety</category><category>systems</category><category>governance</category></item><item><title>If Every User Is a Potential Threat</title><link>https://kanav.net/writing/if-every-user-is-a-threat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kanav.net/writing/if-every-user-is-a-threat/</guid><description>People are not becoming dishonest. They are becoming game-theoretically optimal for the environment they have been placed in.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>design</category><category>systems</category><category>trust</category></item><item><title>You Don’t Have the Right</title><link>https://kanav.net/writing/you-dont-have-the-right/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kanav.net/writing/you-dont-have-the-right/</guid><description>In this Age of Appeals, you have the paper right. And a stamina test.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>healthcare</category><category>design</category><category>systems</category></item><item><title>How to Design for Cognitive Scarcity</title><link>https://kanav.net/writing/how-to-design-for-cognitive-scarcity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kanav.net/writing/how-to-design-for-cognitive-scarcity/</guid><description>Stop designing for the idealized “Hero User.” Build resilient interfaces that work when your user is stressed, tired, and operating on 15% battery.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>design</category><category>product</category><category>interfaces</category></item><item><title>Pending: The Political Economy of Waiting</title><link>https://kanav.net/writing/pending/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kanav.net/writing/pending/</guid><description>The loading screen is the most powerful weapon in the modern state</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>systems</category><category>institutions</category><category>design</category></item><item><title>Toothless Ethics: Why Principles Don’t Stop Machines</title><link>https://kanav.net/writing/toothless-ethics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kanav.net/writing/toothless-ethics/</guid><description>A guide to the difference between moral language and structural constraint</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>design</category><category>safety</category><category>institutions</category></item></channel></rss>