The Poet Who Built the Cage
An AI safety researcher quit to study poetry. A compiler expert found AI can assemble but not generalize. Both discovered the same ceiling — and it isn't capability.
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The Friction That Carries Meaning
When AI polishes your writing, it systematically removes the parts that diverge from the training distribution. The deletions are the most interesting part.
Familiarity Beats Cleverness
Skills as Composable Units
The Taste Artifact
The Taste Artifact
Liberating Trapped Data
The Usability Inflection Point for Sandboxing
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The Machine That Forgot to Feel
Darwin's mind became a machine for grinding facts — and the capacity for beauty went silent. What you don't practice, you lose.
The Softening
The Softening
The Self That Isn't Productive
The Fear That Empties the Present
The Fear That Empties the Present
The Immensity Practice
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The Performance Test
A democracy can pass the ultimate accountability test and still lose the legitimacy race — because the test has changed.
The Prediction Market Exploit
The Knowledge-Action Gap
The Prestige Acquisition Trap
The Invisibility of What Works
The Seal That Stopped Sealing
The Seal That Stopped Sealing
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The Fast That Sets the Clock
Roughly 2.5 billion people changed their daily clock today. Not by willpower — by stepping into a structure older than the one you're following.
The Machine You Work Inside
Community as Infrastructure
The 32-Year Mirror
The Exhausting Conversation
The Rest You Can't Retreat Into
The Rest You Can't Retreat Into
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The Poet Who Built the Cage
An AI safety researcher quit to study poetry. A compiler expert found AI can assemble but not generalize. Both discovered the same ceiling — and it isn't capability.
The Trust Paradox
Three Names for the Same Wound
The Exhaustion Engine
Desire Paths
The Relationship Layer
