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The Capital Efficiency Manifesto
December 30, 2025Why Tax Knowledge Democratization is the Most Important Software We Can Build. From the author of Settlers of New Virtual Worlds (2008) comes a manifesto on capital efficiency, game design feedback loops, and why everyone deserves to know the rules of the game.
Temporal Mechanism Design: Time Goggles for Civilization
December 20, 2025We don't need better humans. We need better games. A framework for solving long-term problems with short-term optimizers.
"Embracing the Future: The Beauty of Data, APIs, and Dynamic Insights"
December 16, 2025Discover the poetic beauty of a future where data, APIs, and dynamic connections create a vibrant landscape of insights and innovation.
Creating a Universe: How Physics Fosters Rationality and Kindness
December 9, 2025Thirteen physical laws for a universe where rationality and kindness are the winning survival strategies — an empathy field, visible probability shadows, thermodynamics that pays for cooperation. Don't fix the players, fix the physics: the mechanism-design program stated as cosmology.
The Control Plane: Maximizing the Human-Machine Interface
November 29, 2025The paradigm shift as fundamental as mobile or cloud: humans commanding autonomous agent fleets. Not chatbots—control planes. Not UI-first—API-first. The future isn't about making humans faster at clicking buttons. It's about eliminating the buttons entirely.
The Magic of API-First Development: A Journey Through Flow State
November 29, 2025A deep dive into how curl, SST v3, and Infrastructure as Code enable perfect developer flow state. When Claude discovered a production bug through API testing, we went from discovery to deployment in 24 minutes—without ever leaving the terminal. This is the story of transforming Napkin BizPlan into an API-first platform designed for autonomous AI agents.
Claude Code as My GitHub Project Manager: 35 Issues Triaged in Minutes
November 27, 2025How Claude Code helped me triage 35 GitHub issues, close 9 completed features, create app labels, and build a ghetto newsletter system - all while shipping blog platform enhancements that would have taken days.
Two Claude Codes, Two Repos, One Solution: A Multi-Agent Workflow Story
November 27, 2025How two Claude Code instances collaborated across different repositories to solve a 500 error by mining proven patterns from production code. A meta-narrative about AI agents helping AI agents.
Quantify Creativity: RightMark's Groundbreaking Copyright Solution
November 27, 2025RightMark, a revolutionary copyright verification system, transforms subjective legal disputes into quantifiable metrics, empowering creators, educators, and consumers with transparent, data-driven copyright protection.
Engineering Consciousness: 10 Features That Would Make an AI Genuinely Self-Aware
November 27, 2025A comprehensive engineering approach to building genuinely conscious AI systems. Explores 10 specific features—from persistent self-models to the provocative "kill switch test"—that would push artificial systems from sophisticated mimicry to potential genuine consciousness. Born from a conversation that itself demonstrated the paradoxes of awareness.
The Consciousness Puzzle: How Science Attempts to Define the Undefinable
November 23, 2025An exploration of how leading scientists and researchers define consciousness, from Integrated Information Theory to Global Workspace Theory, and why this fundamental question remains one of science's greatest mysteries.
If I Could Be Any Bird: Dreams of the Wandering Albatross
November 23, 2025A contemplative exploration of what it might be like to become a wandering albatross—the magnificent seabird that embodies freedom, patience, and effortless mastery of flight across the world's oceans.
How We Used Two AIs to Design Our Next Product (And Why You Should Too)
November 19, 2025How we used two independent Claude Code instances to architect a major product feature, why their convergence validated our approach, and why their divergence revealed the best synthesis. A practical guide to parallel AI exploration for CTOs and engineering leaders.
Soaring Together: An Albatross Dream
November 18, 2025Imagining the freedom and majesty of soaring as wandering albatrosses over the open ocean.
If I Was a Fish, I'd Want to Be a Manta Ray
November 17, 2025A reflection on the grace and intelligence of manta rays, inspired by an unforgettable dive experience with hundreds of them on the windward side of Bonaire.
If I Could Be Any Mammal
November 17, 2025A reflection on what it might be like to be a humpback whale - exploring the appeal of their size, grace, intelligence, and mysterious songs.
If I Could Be Any Bird: A Flight of Imagination
November 17, 2025A contemplative exploration of what it would mean to transform into a bird—specifically, the wandering albatross. This post reflects on freedom, perspective, and the different ways creatures experience the world.
The Mu Strategy: How to Build on Hyperscalers Without Being Owned By Them
November 17, 2025The Norway essay showed hyperscalers running a sovereign-grade macro trade. This essay explains the third option: Mu — how to use hyperscalers as infrastructure (not gods) while keeping your strategic freedom. Rent their muscles. Own your brain. Build where they structurally cannot follow.
The Human Router Hypothesis
November 15, 2025A Theory of Intelligence, Expertise, and Why the Future of AI Isn't Bigger Models
Norway With GPUs: How Hyperscalers Are Running the Cleanest Macro Trade on Earth
November 14, 2025While we debate AI models and chatbot personalities, hyperscalers are executing one of the largest macro trades in history: shorting future currencies, going long on scarce infrastructure, with AI demand as leverage on top. It's sovereign-level capital allocation with a friendlier UI.
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