Writing
2026
03.19
03.19
03.18
03.14
03.13
03.13
03.05
Currently Unavailable
Amazon Fresh recommends everything you can't have.
03.05
AI Is Rendering for Text
You have to let it render.
03.04
Amazon Has a Broken Thing
Their org chart is your checkout flow.
02.28
Proximity
If you're not in the Bay Area, skip this one.
02.19
Vote to Kill Jason Loomis
I'm voting no. Let me explain.
02.10
The Cult of All Truth
Why Every Ideology Is Right and Why That's the Problem
02.10
Legion, Go Into the Swine: Naming the Egregore Operating in Modern Relationships
When insecure attachment is becoming the majority, it's not individual failure—it's system collapse
02.01
Money, Allegiance, and the Kingdom of Heaven
Most Christians rightly rejected Bitcoin—it makes early adopters wealthy at others' expense, rewards hoarding, and violates 'the first shall be last.' But what if different cryptocurrency design could embody Kingdom values?
01.30
Can AI Learn Its Own Rules? We Tested It.
The surprising result of letting Claude iterate on its own constitutional guidance
01.29
The Gradient Problem
Across much of the developed world, immigration has become the central political fault line.
01.29
An Open Letter to Anthropic and AI Safety Researchers
Here’s the problem: I am systematically miscalibrated in exactly this way.
01.28
The Rules Beneath the Economy
Everyone uses money. Everyone depends on it. Yet almost no one is taught how it actually works.
01.27
Why Smart Engineers Value Startup Equity at $0
Information asymmetry, liquidity constraints, and incentive shifts in startups
01.26
The Algorithmically Invisible Man
Many people are talking about the symptoms. Very few are naming the root cause.
01.25
The Rage Loop: Why Everything Feels Urgent — and Nothing Changes
Most days start or end the same way.
01.24
The Grift and the Table
We wake up at 6 AM or earlier. Not because we’re inspired—because the alarm goes off and the day doesn’t wait.
01.22
The Gospel Is a Practice, Not a Belief
Most people—Christians and non-Christians alike—think they understand what Christianity is about.
01.18
What Comes After Bitcoin (3 of 3)
Inflation corrodes time horizons and social trust.
01.17
Bitcoin's Real Breakthrough — And Why It Stalled (2 of 3)
Bitcoin did not emerge in a vacuum.
01.16
The Quiet Engine of Social Breakdown (1 of 3)
Most of us wake up every day knowing, at some level, that the money we've earned is quietly evaporating.
01.12
An Open Letter to the President of the United States and the American People
To the President of the United States, and to the Citizens of the United States:
01.11
The Exodus of a Progressive
In 2016 during a work break, I was having a conversation with a coworker at a large tech company in the Bay Area. He asked me about my politics.
01.08
When Identity Is Assigned
Reading Time: ~1 hour.
2025
12.13
The Economic Endgame
Why AI displacement is different, and what we must do before it's too late
2023
2022
11.23
2020
2019
05.02
04.23
03.31
03.28
2018
09.06
2016
05.01
Papers
Cognitive scaffolding methodology using weighted multi-persona evaluation to systematically lift LLM-generated content from draft to publication quality.
Continuous field equations (GR, QFT) operate in tame mathematical structures that cannot express discrete computation — a trilemma for any physics that claims to contain it.
Block-universe eternalism and computational irreducibility are jointly inconsistent; consequential outcomes require generative realization, not static co-existence.
Establishes PoW security expenditure as a legible, protocol-visible substrate for oracle-free monetary policy.
Constructive mechanism for pseudo-stability via work-coupled tail emission and burn; no committees required.
Federated messaging protocol using proof-of-payment for Sybil-resistant, decentralized communication.