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- Island of Misfit Startups: Part III (Mini Cricket) January 19, 2026
$100 helmet-mounted edge AI that buzzes 'INCOMING DRONE' before the human ear even registers the sound.
- Sequoia’s Mission Accomplished January 17, 2026
Sequoia just declared AGI. Their definition is 'the ability to figure things out.' My Roomba is AGI now. Someone call the LPs.
- Car Keys January 15, 2026
RLMs and MoR are real progress. They're also still not reasoning. A critique of the cutting edge.
- Island of Misfit Startups: Part II (KesslerGym) January 15, 2026
Train your satellite AI for Tuesday in LEO with bad data. A 'messy reality' simulation environment for autonomous space traffic management.
- Petty Gods January 15, 2026
The accelerationists expect the Rapture. The doomers expect Ragnarok. Both are fairy tales. What actually arrives is worse: narrow superintelligences that solve everything except the thing that matters.
- Island of Misfit Startups: Part I (LensReader) January 12, 2026
Algorithmic feeds are bad for your brain. This startup is vitamins for your brain.
- Axioms of Polity January 11, 2026
A manifesto for human/machine polity charting civispace. Neither as apex mind. A forest.
- Marvin January 11, 2026
Your ASI needs a hug.
- Geometry Saves Mawmaw January 10, 2026
I proposed that goal-space geometry could replace executive function in AI architectures. Then I discovered the math already exists.
- Cargo Cult Civilization January 9, 2026
Your attention-algorithm feed isn't corrupting you. It's completing a transaction your biology was always ready to make. And a population optimized for minimum cognitive expenditure is maximally controllable.
- Ludonarrative Puppets, Sandwiches, and AI January 8, 2026
A TTRPG about self-aware puppets who know they're being controlled, and the only freedom left: laughing at it loudly enough that it hurts.
- AI Can’t Help Mawmaw, But Worms Can January 7, 2026
A robot caring for your grandma needs to fluidly inhabit radically different forms of cognition: creativity, logic, and crisis. Nothing in current AI architectures explains how. Worms might.
- Frontier Models Do Not Think January 6, 2026
Transformers don't reason. They perform reasoning kabuki theater. What's missing isn't capability, it's coordination.
- Corporate Politics: The Cockroach of Capitalism December 26, 2025
As automation commoditizes execution and cognition, the most durable form of human labor is not leadership or knowledge work, but illegible, risk-bearing, political coordination. An essay on why corporate politics survives every technological wave.
- Vermin, Terriers and Transformers December 13, 2025
If $500 drones can destroy the power grid (or an aircraft carrier), million-dollar missiles aren't a defense strategy. They're bankruptcy. A look at the 'Vermin' problem and why we need an immune system for critical infrastructure.
- Paul Graham Can Kiss My App November 4, 2025
Why I'm intentionally building Taleway wrong (no accounts, no UI, no engagement metrics) and why that might be exactly right for 2025
- Build Bridges, Not Moats October 31, 2025
Prognistication and contemplation of the nature of sustainable competition, circa 2025
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley October 30, 2025
I am the captain of my soul
- Game Design Journal 2025-10-29 October 29, 2025
5E: the mall food court of roleplaying games
- Game Design Journal 2025-10-29 October 29, 2025
Player skill? Character skill? Chocolate AND Peanut Butter?
- Apple Is a Duopolistic Predator, and I Know What Their Next Move Is October 28, 2025
Building an ambient audio app revealed Apple's blueprint for the future, and it's not about innovation. It's about control. Here's what they're building next.
- Yes, YOU Can Have Your Very Own Sears Catalog Moment October 28, 2025
Your website doesn't matter anymore. Your API does. AI agents are killing web traffic the same way Amazon killed Sears catalogs. Here's what happens next.
- Building with Astro January 20, 2025
Thoughts on static site generators
- 60,000% growth in 7 months using Clojure and AWS September 1, 2012
How we scaled from 1,000 to 600,000+ daily users with zero downtime, no late nights, and a four-person team. The architecture decisions that made it possible.
- Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team May 2, 2012
The story of how we fired everyone, rewrote everything in Clojure, moved to AWS, and built a scalable OTA platform with just four developers—then got acquired by the biggest hotel chains in the world.