The Prestige Acquisition Trap
When ownership logic diverges from institutional purpose, ownership wins. The institution's mission was always contingent on the owner's patience—we just didn't see it.
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Community as Infrastructure
The potluck isn't a break from the work. It's the work in its quiet phase—building the network before you need it urgently.
Skills as Composable Units
Your expertise has a shape. A de facto standard is emerging for packaging agent capabilities—and it means you can solve problems once and carry them forward forever.
Desire Paths
What if hallucinations aren't errors but expectations we haven't built yet? Steve Yegge's 'desire paths' pattern inverts who's teaching whom.
The Story of Economics
The story of how humans learned to coordinate with strangers — from gift economies through money, markets, and the great experiments of the twentieth century.
The Self That Isn't Productive
You don't need an ROI for the poem. The third self doesn't owe the social self an explanation.
The Invisibility of What Works
Reliability produces invisibility. What works well stops being noticed, and what stops being noticed stops being maintained. Success is self-undermining.
The 32-Year Mirror
A college student calculated he'd spend 32 years on screens. The number changed him—not because it was advice, but because it was a mirror.
The Taste Artifact
Your codebase is already teaching your AI agents. The question isn't whether you're teaching—it's whether you're teaching what you mean to.
The Relationship Layer
You can build a perfectly aligned AI that does exactly what you asked—and still damage the human in the relationship. Task completion doesn't capture relationship health.
The Story of Artificial Intelligence
A narrative history of artificial intelligence from ancient dreams to the present moment, told through the coherentism lens.
Liberating Trapped Data
Friction doesn't just slow you down—it shapes what you attempt. The coherentist move: build the extraction pipeline once and stop paying friction tax forever. Solve once, reuse forever.
The Advertiser in the Room
Third-party presence changes relational grammar before anyone acts in bad faith — triangulation is geometric, not moral.
The Fear That Empties the Present
You can't fully be here if part of you is stationed at the gates, watching for what might take this away.