Writing
Philosophy
Articles on how to think and live. 11 in total.
- Appearance versus reality, from three lines in an interview Nov 2026 · 2 min Three ideas from a public interview with Elon Musk, checked against sources, and what they changed in how I count my own work.
- Do the rules that stop an AI also stop us? Nov 2026 · 4 min I compared how an AI model is trained with how a person is raised. The comparison breaks in places that matter, and those places show what a rule file can do that a social rule cannot.
- Come with a question, not a verdict Nov 2026 · 3 min Most arguments start after one side has already decided. What changes when you open with a question, and a check you can run on yourself first.
- Stay Close Behind the Code Oct 2026 · 5 min AI can write the code. You still have to understand it as it appears. Hype makes that feel optional, and the feelings it brings are fear and desperation.
- You Cannot Stop What Arrives Oct 2026 · 4 min I cannot choose which thoughts show up, only what I do with them. My settlement engine has the same limit, and its worst bug came from refusing to decide.
- A Convenience Is Hard to Give Back Oct 2026 · 4 min Sapiens on the luxury trap, and a retry in code that shows the same shape: a small step that helps, then work you cannot stop doing.
- More Copies Is Not a Better Life Oct 2026 · 3 min Sapiens on why farming made the average life harder while the number of people went up, and where a comparison to companies holds and where it stops.
- A Mind That Lies to You Too Sep 2026 · 4 min Sapiens on the trade that let us out-think evolution, and why the same tool needs checking on yourself, not just on the world.
- What Becomes True When Both Stay Sep 2026 · 4 min A reading about how thin the evidence for the past actually is, applied to two live self-theories, and what a real system looks like when it refuses to force a premature answer.
- Claim, Argument, and the Discipline of Not Fooling Yourself Sep 2026 · 5 min What a book's rhetorical force has to do with a decisions log, and why both deserve the same scrutiny.
- Knowing and being able to explain are not the same skill Sep 2026 · 1 min Why fluent reproduction of an idea can hide a gap in your ability to reconstruct it from first principles.