Essays & notes · 2025–2026
Thinking in public, selectively.
These started as private conversations and notebooks. They are edited for length, not for comfort. The dates are the dates the thinking happened, not the dates it was cleaned up. RSS.
2026
5 pieces Open-Sourcing the Self (Systems) A structured record of how a mind works is more useful to strangers than another post about what it concluded. Rashomon Cognition: Same Event, Different Truths (Notes) At fifteen I concluded that no account is objective. The harder question was what to do once you accept that. Engineering a Life: Systems That Survive the Operator (Systems) Inertia, not willpower, moves a life. I have been trying to build systems that restart after they break. Mutual Aid Against the Machine (Philosophy) Kropotkin argued cooperation is an evolutionary advantage, not a moral one. The hard part is what happens at scale. Neither Fate Nor Freedom (Philosophy) Determinism explains the script. It does not explain who stands at its edge, writing comments in the margin.
2025
3 pieces Weak Free Will and the Social Machine (Philosophy) Philosophy is cheap to quote and expensive to think. Most people never get a quiet hour to pay for it. Motion, Cicadas, and the White Night (Philosophy) Some people are lost with a match. I was sixteen and lost with the whole board lit. Eight Questions Without Answers (Philosophy) The question was whether a person who sees too much is doomed. The answer kept turning into another version of the question.