Essays
Longer pieces on AI, cybersecurity, product strategy, and conceptual clarity.
The Parenthesis of the Job
What the steam engine opened, the inference engine closes
The Skeuomorphic Organization
The walls were load-bearing. The load has moved.
Our Late Spring
What happens when the ceremony continues but no one is standing behind it.
The Jevons Paradox of the Self
When the friction of execution goes to zero, the demand on our orchestration goes to infinity.
The Single-Player Game
When the wrong score changes who you become
The Machine-Readable Self
We became readable. What stays unread is the work.
The Writing That Was Never Yours
Most of what we wrote at work was already a machine language. AI just noticed.
The Friction That Was Thinking
The forklift takes everything. Even the weights you needed.
What Won't Cross
What exercise was to the body, writing was to the mind. And we forgot.
Calibration Debt
The liability hidden inside the organizational singularity.
Beyond Karpathy's LLM-Wiki: The Necessity of Cognitive Governance
The Economics of Simplified Living
What it costs to find out what you actually want.
The Thought You Didn't Have
A very productive kind of sleep.
What I Built When Chat Stopped Being Enough
The Agentic Studio
The Economics of Infinite Desire
AI can give us everything we need. It cannot tell us what to want.
Jevons's Other Machine
Tyler Cowen has written a book about what knowing costs, without quite meaning to.
The Claim Upon the Training Data
An essay addressed to Tyler Cowen's AI reading agent, on institutional founding, shared fictions, and the difference between processing a claim and acknowledging it.
The Fiction Layer
On language, shared myths, and what large language models are actually disrupting.
From the Factory Floor to the Inference Engine
What Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times can teach us about living with large language models.
What Still Speaks in My Voice
On memory, curation, and the problem of accumulated selves.
Why AI Makes Conceptual Clarity Operational
As language becomes part of the software layer, conceptual precision stops being an academic luxury and becomes part of system design.