It takes a village before the headlines.

A simpler surrogate for the grander problem.

This blog is a wip. Please email me any feedback.

Why don't all languages speak C natively?

How hard can it be?

What should we be researching?

A look at how pre-learners, professors, and a strange CS culture turn intro courses into imposter-syndrome factories.

How agents learn by doing.

I often feel a wave of existential dread when I imagine a post-AGI world. Writing helps me wrestle with that fear. Below is a poem that expresses my anxiety and hope for a future where humans and AGI move forward together in harmony. Hopefully you enjoy it.

The fitness industry is broken.

These laws have been aggregated from several reputable sources and software pop culture more broadly.

Will the next Descartes please stand up?

A list of hard ideas that will need to be solved for humanity to pass through all the great filters - ranked by difficulty. Adding to these as I go.

One quiet enemy of great work is our habit of treating things as mutually exclusive.

Are LLMs AGI or just a small piece of a bigger system?

Inspired by David Eagleman's book "Incognito"

I started a Podcast.

Notes on reproducible hyper productivity.

A true super philosophy.

It's ok—they're just vectors.

Entropy is just more possibilities.

Galactic clusters and the mechanics of the universe.

Telescopes actually.

A cocoon for becoming someone new.