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A Nicer Treadmill
The hedonic-treadmill advice misreads its own metaphor. You can't step off — but you can build a better treadmill.Read More →
Polymath Profile - William Walker Atkinson
William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) was a Baltimore-born lawyer turned New Thought editor whose hundred-plus books — issued under more than a dozen fabricated personas — quietly engineered much of 20th-century American spirituality.Read More →
The K Stands for Kabbalah
Baseball is a Theosophical-Masonic ritual broadcast nightly from thirty open-air temples. Bring it up at brunch.Read More →
Nantucket Has Finally Reached 2003
The Muse just published its summer lineup. Gen X has formally taken the island.Read More →
The Sponsored Commons
The collective is real. So is the capital that made it possible. The contradiction is the shape of the moment.Read More →
The Layer Above the Model
Switching models every release resets the compounding. The layer above the model is what actually gets better with practice.Read More →
Red Sox's John Henry Fires Six Coaches On Time And Under Budget
On the surgical elegance of John Henry's coaching purge, the captain who got a desk instead of a pink slip, and the 17-1 send-off that doubled as severance.Read More →
Polymath Profile - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator who pioneered organic architecture and the Prairie School over a 70-year career punctuated by genius, tragedy, and chronic financial chaos.Read More →
Polymath Profile - Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) was an American economist, cognitive scientist, AI pioneer, and Nobel laureate whose orderly daily life at Carnegie Mellon supported a polymathic career spanning a half-dozen disciplines.Read More →
Polymath Profile - Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling (1901-1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, and peace activist whose work founded modern structural chemistry and molecular biology, and who remains the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes.Read More →
Polymath Profile - Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a Welsh-Norwegian fighter pilot, wartime intelligence officer, short-story writer, screenwriter, and children's author whose darkly comic imagination reshaped twentieth-century children's literature.Read More →
The Red Sox Are Bad On Purpose And You Should Send John Henry A Thank-You Note
In defense of our benevolent owners, who are losing on purpose, on your behalf, for reasons.Read More →
Deterministic Core, Expressive Edge
The new stack layers expressive AI on top of deterministic systems. Structured outputs are the bridge between them.Read More →
If Geese is a Psyop Plug me Back into the Matrix
A full-throated endorsement of the industry-plant theory of the best young rock band in America.Read More →
Siddhartha Gautama: The Ultimate Nepo Baby
A man with three palaces walks outside, sees an old person, and invents a religion.Read More →
Thinking Short and Long
Most of the important questions in life are calibration problems, not maximization problems.Read More →
The Session Is the Unit
Agent reliability is about the rhythm between sessions, not the prompt inside one.Read More →
Let Them Eat Slop
A satirical case for the infinite buffet of machine-generated content.Read More →
When the User Interface Stops Being the Product
AI makes interfaces cheap to generate, shifting software value toward capabilities and access.Read More →
Rethinking Code Ownership in the Age of AI
CODEOWNERS was designed for a world where code production was human-limited. That world is ending.Read More →
Gravity and the Shape of the Future
A metaphor for understanding how wealth, ideas, and attention accumulate, collide, and move the future.Read More →
Three Degrees of Information
A framework for an information diet to reduce distortion, anxiety, and false certainty.Read More →
How AI Is Reshaping Documentation
AI-first workflows are killing the old way we write and read documentationRead More →
How I Freedive for Lobster in Cape Ann
A detailed guide to freediving for lobster in the rocky waters of Cape Ann, Massachusetts.Read More →
The Art of Context Engineering
The trick isn’t in the words you write — it’s the context you shape together.Read More →
Bootstrapping New Projects with Cursor
How I used Cursor to clone my favorite blog setup — and how you can tooRead More →
Building a Modern Next.js App with Supabase Authentication
A comprehensive tutorial for setting up a Next.js app with Supabase authenticationRead More →
Building a Modern Blog with Next.js, TypeScript, and Nextra 4
A comprehensive tutorial for setting up a blog like this oneRead More →
Fractal Thinking with AI
A New Paradigm for Software Development (and Beyond)Read More →
Polymath Profile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) is a Lebanese-American thinker renowned as a former derivatives trader turned scholarly essayist and risk analyst.Read More →
Polymath Profile - John von Neumann
John von Neumann (1903–1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer pioneer, and polymath whose life and work epitomize integrated excellence across disciplines.Read More →
Polymath Profile - Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (1895–1983) was an American architect, inventor, engineer, author, and futurist often hailed as a modern-day Renaissance man.Read More →
Building Software with My AI Team
How I use ChatGPT, Cursor, and Warp like real teammates in my workflow.Read More →
Seasonal Living as a Personal Operating System
Redesigning daily life through Stoic wisdom, natural rhythms, and the lessons of New England.Read More →