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Writing
Long-form essays on AI, meaning, and the systems we are handing to whatever comes next. Thinking out loud — kept as written, dates and all.
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October 7, 2026
When Software Gets a Body
World models, humanoid robots, and what happens when AI can reach out and touch the world.
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September 11, 2026
What the Hell Is P(Doom)?
AI people have started assigning percentages to the end of the world. The number matters less than the choices behind it.
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September 9, 2026
Ohems: What Comes After Websites
Websites were built for people to browse. Organizational Emissaries could represent organizations and people directly to humans and AI.
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August 23, 2026
The Divergence of AI: Companions, Specialists, and the Architecture Between Them
How I’m thinking about AI, for now.
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August 4, 2026
We Have the Channel. We Never Wrote the Message.
Nuclear semiotics spent decades on how to warn a reader who knows less than we do. We are encoding for one who will know more — which means the message, not the channel, is the part we never settled.
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July 11, 2025
A Guide to Specialized AI Models
A practical field guide to the specialized model architectures behind modern AI systems.
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June 27, 2025
The Edge of Awareness
How peripheral cognizance could give us a second attention—AI that watches the edges, connects context, and surfaces what matters before we know to ask.
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June 13, 2025
Beyond the Interface: Semantic OS and the Coming Age of OS-less AI
What happens when agents, memory, and meaning replace apps, menus, and the operating system as we know it?
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February 21, 2025
System Integrations, Just Good Fun
Why disconnected software recreates the friction of the sneaker-net era—and what real integration should accomplish.
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February 7, 2025
Beyond Chatbots: The Rise of AI That Thinks and Acts
Agentic AI moves beyond answering questions toward setting goals, making decisions, and taking action.
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January 24, 2025
The Evolution of Search
From AltaVista to Google to conversational AI, each era of search changes how we discover—and who gets found.
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June 24, 2024
Some Thoughts on AI
How real-time AI pricing could quietly reshape retail — and why letting it gouge essentials is a design failure, not a win.
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November 13, 2023
Some AI Predictions
Near- and long-term predictions about personal agents, legal authority, unequal access, and AI-shaped realities.
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June 4, 2018
Game AI and Human Level Frustration, or Why Computers Can’t Be Too Good
Game AI can learn to beat us. Good game design still has to leave room for humans to win.
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March 19, 2018
Self-driving Cars and Stuff
Autonomous vehicles won't just drive themselves — they'll talk to each other, forming packs that move as a single mind.
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October 9, 2017
A What-If Scenario for Us All
A 2017 thought experiment: a tech giant rebuilds a hurricane-shattered territory, then becomes its government.
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// ideas age, the thinking still shows.