About The Counter-Premise

The Counter-Premise is an independent publication featuring essays on politics, technology, power and institutions.

The premise is simple: public arguments often become trapped by the assumptions they begin with. The most useful intervention is sometimes not another answer to the question being debated, but a different way of asking it.

The essays published here examine those underlying premises: the frames that determine what counts as a problem, which choices appear available, and whose agency and responsibility get overlooked. They range across political economy, international affairs, technology and institutional life, following the argument rather than a fixed subject beat.

About the author

Aymar Pirzada is a strategy and technology executive based in Germany. His professional background spans non-profits, B2B software and robotics, with a particular interest in how institutions make decisions and how technological and political systems shape human agency.

The Counter-Premise is his independent home for essays and commentary.