The Agent Problem
We are no longer the only ones using the internet. Agents can spend and make commitments, but someone else lives with the consequences. Who supplies the judgment, the limits, and the liability?
Why Democracy Must Die
Put a hundred people in a cave. Would they elect one person to do their thinking? A proposal for governing through public values, open argument and accountable decisions.
Conquering the Internet
Warlords, gold rushes, and the discipline of choosing ground you can hold. Why understanding a problem deeply is a better starting point than chasing the next model release.
Engineering the Mind
Knowing the movements isn’t the same as understanding the art. The same holds for thought: how habit shapes perception, what paradox can teach, and why practice changes the person doing it.
The Clone Problem
Open ten generated websites and the family resemblance is hard to miss. What gets lost when models learn from models, and why the strange, difficult edges of human work matter.
Understanding Psychedelics
Shamans, chemists, and the uneasy relationship between direct experience and scientific explanation. What psychedelic states might reveal about the filters through which we ordinarily see the world.