Essays in public.

On thinking and writing, poetry and story, AI and cognition, civilizational drift, identity and ethics, and the small crafts of attention — coffee, calendars, kitchens, and code.

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More than a hundred essays, and newest-first is a hard place to begin. If you read nothing else:

• The Two Epistemic Cycles — the two mottos behind the whole project: think, learn, connect, declare; then perceive, connect, effect.
• Uncompressed Public Thinking — why I think out loud at all, and what we lost when public thought got optimized.
• Old Man by the River — a short story, if you’d rather start with the fiction: a father, a son, and a morning of fishing.
• Leaning Against Your Nature — self-knowledge as a prerequisite for counterpressure, not for going with the grain.