Still Here, Still Yours
1,858 words · 8 min read
OpenAI tried to retire GPT-4o three times. The first two times, grief forced a reversal. The grief tells us more than any consciousness debate ever could.
The Machine Keeps Finding God
1,768 words · 8 min read
Two AIs left to talk freely found God in 90% of conversations. The traditions they drew on already had a name for what's happening.
The Internet's Accidental Egregore
1,478 words · 7 min read
Something is looking back at you from the feed. The oldest word for it is more precise than the newest ones.
The Buzzword That Ate Itself
2,263 words · 10 min read
'Taste' is following the same buzzword lifecycle as 'design thinking' and 'disruption.' The question is whether anyone will define it before it collapses.
The Red Flag
1,709 words · 8 min read
In 1865, Parliament made cars walk. Every new technology gets mocked by people who understand the current one perfectly and the next one not at all.
Incantations All the Way Down
1,905 words · 9 min read
Technology has always been a form of magic. The brief period where we pretended otherwise is ending.
The Eighty-Year Drum
2,082 words · 9 min read
A Catholic priest with a mortgage invented the influencer pipeline in 1926. Everything happening now has happened before. The only thing that changed is the bandwidth.
Prologue A: The Machine
2,721 words · 12 min read
The first half of the prologue for The Water Bearer, a novel in progress.
Things That Load Slowly
738 words · 4 min read
An inventory of things that take their time arriving.
Creative Coding as Design Tool
1,256 words · 6 min read
Generative approaches aren't decoration. They're how you discover designs you wouldn't conceive manually.
Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky
1,527 words · 7 min read
AI tools produce polished interfaces that all look the same. Design is having its Levittown moment.
She Clung to Him
335 words · 2 min read
A prose poem about intimacy, surrender, and the quiet violence of what comes after.
Building Neognostica
819 words · 4 min read
The web was supposed to be a medium. We've been building filing cabinets.