We're all trying to escape what we are, but it's hard when they know everything.

A Wasted Commute is a blog about mass surveillance, political subjectivity, and the systems designed to watch us. It is written by Sam Niederholzer — a philosophy graduate from UC Davis, working toward an MA in philosophy while building technical skills in cybersecurity, cryptography, and open source intelligence.

The longer project: understanding how surveillance capitalism erodes interiority, political imagination, and the capacity for resistance — and building decentralized systems to resist it.