Topics

Living systems, meaning, selfhood, awareness, and the worlds organisms construct.

1. What is Bio-Ontology?
2. The Intimacy of the Unfamiliar
3. The Wolf, the Leash, and the Problem With Tool Use
4. Ikigai Is Not What the Internet Thinks It Is

How large systems organize attention, effort, technology, and failure.

1. The Clumsy Forest
2. Distance Inversion
3. A Jiang Gang and a Weng: How Hong Kong and Taiwan Aged the Ingredients for China's Rapid Growth
4. The AI Bubble Is Not the AI Economy
5. The Principal-Thinker Problem and the Skunkworks
6. The World Might Not Want Another BTC Thesis — But It Needs One
7. The Unpriced Value of Open Source

Programming, automation, AI-assisted work, and the changing shape of technical agency.

1. The Seven Levels of Vibe Coding
2. The AI Bubble Is Not the AI Economy
3. The Unpriced Value of Open Source

The small inventions, constraints, and accumulations that make civilization possible.

1. Such a Deal: 30,000 Years of Accumulated Innovation in Your $12 T-Shirt
2. The World Might Not Want Another BTC Thesis — But It Needs One
3. The Unpriced Value of Open Source

Civilization, detectability, Dyson swarms, aliens, and the difficulty of thinking at scale.

1. The Motley Swarm: How a Dyson Structure Could Outgrow Every Plan That Built It
2. The Clumsy Forest
3. The Oceanic Filter: Why the Milky Way May Be Full of Orcas and SETI Will Never Know

How knowledge, capability, labor, technology, institutions, and exchange create value—and how that value survives, moves, compounds, or disappears.

1. Distance Inversion
2. Such a Deal: 30,000 Years of Accumulated Innovation in Your $12 T-Shirt
3. The AI Bubble Is Not the AI Economy
4. The Principal-Thinker Problem and the Skunkworks
5. The Unpriced Value of Open Source
6. The World Might Not Want Another BTC Thesis — But It Needs One