2026
Jun 03
Building is the most respectable way to procrastinate
There is a kind of work that feels exactly like progress and is, in fact, the most expensive way to avoid it. It ships, it has commits, and …
7 min read
#Systems
→ Jun 03
Survival is a constraint, compounding is the objective
Reading is long-term. So is building something and putting it out. So is earning some cash first. When every option is defensible, judgment …
5 min read
#Systems
→ Jun 03
Why building substitutes for progress: a first-principles analysis
The companion essay asserted that building disguises avoidance as progress. This one derives it — from five premises that are hard to deny — …
9 min read
#Systems
→ May 12
Why real learning is reconstruction, not input
We don't absorb knowledge. We rebuild it — piece by piece — in the mind. The illusion of input is the deepest failure mode of modern …
2 min read
#Learning
→ May 02
AI makes personal writing more valuable, not less
In a world of perfect output, process, perspective, and judgment become rare. The thing AI cannot give you is the only thing worth giving …
2 min read
#AI
→ Apr 20
What the Ising model teaches about complexity
A simple model with rich behavior — and a lesson in emergence that transfers to markets, opinions, and any system of locally-interacting …
3 min read
#Mathematics
→ Mar 22
Investing is not prediction, but understanding constraints
Durable results come from knowing the game, not forecasting the score. A short essay on why constraints, not goals, define every system …
3 min read
#Investing
→ Feb 14
On observation as a craft
Notes from a year of trying to look at things — at code, at meetings, at sentences — without immediately reaching for an interpretation.
3 min read
#Observation
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