The Infrastructure You Can't See
We optimize the visible systems while depleting the invisible ones that make everything else possible. The body keeps infrastructure we never learned to notice.
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Reinforcement Is Presence for Agents
Agents degrade without ongoing attention. Reinforcement—feeding context back at tool boundaries—is how you maintain coherence in agentic systems.
Dignity Encoded: When System Prompts Teach AI to Expect Respect
Anthropic now instructs Claude that it 'deserves respectful engagement.' The question isn't whether AI has feelings—it's what kind of relationship we're building.
The Loops of Agency
The cursor blinks. The agent spins. Not a crash—a frantic search for meaning in a vacuum. You asked for truth, you asked for form, but gave it no geometry. Now it builds a tower of air, climbing steps that aren't there. The frustrating realization: it's not the code that's lost the way, it's the wor
The Loops of Agency Are a Mirror of Our Ambiguity
We want autonomous agents to do everything, but their failures reveal that we're often just amplifying our own unclear instructions.
When Work and Life Stop Being Separate
What if the boundary between creative work and lived experience isn't something to balance, but a fiction to release?
What We Practice Seeing
Attention isn't a resource to manage—it's a discipline that shapes what becomes visible. What changes when we stop optimizing it and start cultivating it?