The Scorpion Never Drowns
An old fable, a new export order, and the mercy real power leaves out.
01 Editor's Desk
Selected essays on AI, systems, technology, and what still feels human.
The Easiest Person to Fool
Maybe wisdom is not the absence of self-deception. Maybe it is the willingness to audit our own stories.
What Artificial Intelligence Actually Is: A grounded explainer
The Plain Definition
Artificial intelligence is software that performs tasks
The Gentleman Whose Bones Left Him
A cautionary rhyme about a proud man learns the hard way to be kind to the parts of himself he takes for granted.
The Last Bridge-Builder: Charlie Kirk's Assassination and America's 250th Year
How much longer can the American experiment last? Not whether it deserves to, but whether the mechanisms that made Kirk's assassination predictable and forgettable reveal a republic that has lost the capacity to survive.
The Museum Nobody Can Rob: A Metaphor for the Bitcoin Blockchain
Bitcoin is weird, but it's not complicated. And the weird parts are actually the interesting parts.