Writing
Thinking out loud.
Essays on systems, biology, AI, and what a good life looks like in an economy that's being rewritten. Drafts, mostly. I think in public.
After the feed: linking spheres
More and more, I meet my own digital life through an assistant. I keep wondering what happens when my assistant can talk to yours.
There are no diffuse networks in biology
Nature does not trust strangers. After most of a decade among living systems, I have started to think our software should be less trusting too.
What if scrolling were harvesting?
The phone promised me my friends and handed me a slot machine. I do not think the fault is mine, and I do not think we are stuck with it.
The ceiling is you now
For years the wall between me and the thing I wanted to build was engineering. Lately the wall is something else, and I did not expect it to be so humbling.