Colin Steele
Writing and photos.
Recent Posts
- Yeah, baby! Austin Powers Writes Firmware May 1, 2026
What it actually looks like to cross from symbol-world into atoms-world, brick a board in the process, and spend the day at a Latin Mass written in 1975.
- The Involuntary Entrepreneur April 27, 2026
I have a stupidity detector. It fires whether I want it to or not. Two market shapes set it off (larval and fossilized) and the tax shows up whether or not anyone credits the work.
- Distribution is Dead April 4, 2026
I built a product that solves a real problem. The internet doesn't care. Here are my four options, all of them bad.
- Majors and Generalizations March 26, 2026
You don't generalize from cups. You specialize from physics. Cognition is navigation of a single manifold where intent is the tangent vector, risk is the curvature, and the metric is the scar tissue.
- What Do CAD and Real Estate Have in Common? March 20, 2026
Dassault sells you the right to read your own design files. NAR sold you the right to see the housing market. Same grift, different industry. One got sued. The other won't.