Essays on AI, software, and the world they're reshaping.
Mostly arguments about power, money, and attention — with notes on the systems I build in between. Grouped by what they are about; filter by stage for the date-ordered archive, or browse by topic.
SEEDLING Rough notes, still formingBUDDING Developing, partially revisedEVERGREEN Considered finished and maintained
Budding
49- BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Audit Only Checks What It Can Reach
My own site published a number that was false while the correct number sat four lines below it, and the reason generalizes further than software. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Boredom Is a Skill
We engineered boredom out of existence and lost something we cannot get back from a screen. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Nihilism Is Lazy Philosophy
Nothing matters is the intellectual equivalent of not voting and it deserves the same respect. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Meditation Industrial Complex
How mindfulness got stripped from its Buddhist roots and sold back as a productivity hack for corporate America. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
You Don't Find Yourself
The 'finding yourself' narrative assumes a fixed self waiting to be discovered; the research says you build one, and keep rebuilding it. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Nostalgia Is a Political Weapon
The mythologized past that authoritarian movements promise to restore never existed, but the longing they exploit is real. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Prison System Isn't Broken
Mass incarceration looks like failure only until you ask what the system was built to do. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Public Libraries Are Radical
If someone proposed the public library today, free and open to everyone with no purchase required, they would be called a socialist. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Meritocracy Is a Fairy Tale
The word meritocracy was coined as satire, and we built an entire economic theology around the joke. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Healthcare Is Infrastructure
We treat healthcare like a consumer product when it functions like a road or a power grid. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Abolition Isn't What You Think
Abolition is not the absence of safety but the presence of something better than cages. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Borders Are Newer Than You Think
The modern border regime is barely a century old, and pretending otherwise distorts every immigration debate we have.