Structure as Signal: When Codebases Talk to Agents Codebases optimized for human reading miss what agents need most: explicit structure, clear signals, and self-documenting architecture.
When the System Above You Fails, You Don't Wait States don't wait for federal collapse to finish before feeding people. The pattern reveals something stark: nested systems either substitute or cascade. Resilience has a shape.
Whose Alignment Wins? AI helped someone cut a $195k hospital bill to $33k. Same day, Amazon laid off 14,000 workers to fund AI. The tool is the same. The question is whose flourishing it serves.
The Five-Minute Reset Beats the Twelve-Hour Push Short, deliberate resets restore clarity faster than strained sprints. Attention first, then action. The day gets easier without getting shorter.
When Counting Replaces Witnessing, Legitimacy Thins Out Metrics help govern. But when they stand in for attention, systems trade legitimacy for speed. The numbers look neat. The people don't feel seen.
The Stories That Won't Stay Whole We want clean origin stories for our meaning-making. The archive keeps handing us fragments, projections, and honest gaps instead.
What Remains When Presence Ends Death clarifies what presence looked like while someone was alive. Three endings this week asked the same question: were you here?