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She works three days a week. She's still burnt out. When rest doesn't fix the exhaustion, the workload was never the problem.

Or: Why do I always do things the hard way?

from hookswitch to grave 2026-06-14 Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left a famously complicated corporate history. One of the greatest enterprises in American history, arguably the greatest enterprise, AT&T has often rivaled the federal government in t...

Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.)

Lessons from aviation and nuclear power show how to preserve human skills

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it on your podcast services here. OpenAI put out its full technical report on the Hugging Face hac...

A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, to name a few. Other well-…

the general consensus around being an npc is that you’re giving up your autonomy—essentially becoming a side character in someone else's story or watching li...

A computer can hold far more in “working memory” than a human can. We can’t reason about a complex system when it branches in dozens of directions, each branch with its own implications, all interconnected. It’s simply too much to keep in our heads at once.

The idea that universes evolve like organisms sat on the fringes of theoretical physics for decades. Then, a Substack post and a 2022 find by the James Webb Space Telescope boosted the concept

Spotlight on DREADDs and chemogenetics

Ain’t it fun, livin’ in the real world?

A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.

I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when y…

The largest and strangest riot in New York City’s history.

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If AI is so great, why are the only new tech giants GenAI companies?

This article is the first part of a two-part series, aiming to provide a short introduction to the intellectual history and genealogy of Hans Freudenthal’s Lingua Cosmica. This first part aim…

Today, tech folk are scrambling to change their workflows to meet newly inflated 5X productivity quotas, while getting pummeled under the co...

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