Buy things that get better
A note on a veg-tanned leather sleeve worth owning, and an argument for the small class of objects that improve under use.
3 min read
The Model Isn't Thinking. Neither Were You, Most of the Time.
Stochastic parrot or emerging mind, both cliches are wrong in opposite directions. What language models actually do is internalize the shape of every structured thing we write, contracts, proofs, code, and the unsettling part is how much of our own work runs on the same map.
6 min read
Stoicism is not the philosophy you think it is
The contemporary stoic keeps the calm and loses the intervention. Paired with pragmatism, the original philosophy comes back as something that can actually steer a life.
4 min read
A field guide to the LinkedIn AI prophet
The genre opens with insomnia, peaks with a pedestrian prompt, and closes with What do YOU think. A taxonomy of the AI thought leadership post, and why the algorithm keeps rewarding it.
3 min read
Baphomet was never a devil
A figure invented by a French occultist as a symbol of synthesis, weaponized for satanic panic, then flattened into shorthand for edginess. The actual story is more interesting than any of those uses.
3 min read