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The Fractal Delusion: Why Motion Isn’t Proof
From the road, it looks like progress. A project site at full stride has a particular kind of confidence to it. Steel ribs climb into the sky. Concrete trucks arrive on schedule. Cranes swing slow, deliberate arcs, placing beams where they belong as if the building is assembling itself. You can stand at the fence Read more
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Leased Understanding
Photo by Casey Lovegrove on Unsplash Author’s note: Two objections are worth granting upfront. First: renting competence can be optimal. Not everything should be rebuilt internally, and not every organization can afford deep expertise in every domain. The point here isn’t “never outsource.” It’s: don’t outsource comprehension for systems you’re accountable for. Second: internal teams Read more
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Trust Is Infrastructure
Photo by Joseph Corl on Unsplash In the decades following the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, Americans learned a bitter lesson about trust: the news wasn’t just a carrier of facts anymore. It was a platform with incentives. What once felt like shared information slowly became something else: an arena where attention was the product, Read more
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The Space Between Slop and Solutions
Photo by John Cardamone on Unsplash In early 2026, a meme started making the rounds with surprising traction: Microslop. It began as a riff on “AI slop”; Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year, coined to describe the deluge of low-effort, AI-generated content saturating digital platforms. Within days, Microslop had become shorthand for growing public frustration Read more
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The Quiet Shift: When Everyone’s OS Stopped Being Infrastructure
Photo by J.M Read on Unsplash My first computer didn’t have windows, just a blinking green cursor, a keyboard, and the ‘soft’ whir of a hard drive spinning to life under MS-DOS. Commands mattered. Cause and effect were immediate. You typed something, and the system responded, honestly, and without agenda. A few years later, I Read more
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We Should Plan to Fail
Photo by Zach Lezniewicz on Unsplash For weeks, the system behaved exactly as designed. Aria had matured from a directory of experiments into a stable local agent: custom tools, a conversational interface, a growing memory layer, scheduled journaling, and enough reliability to test new ideas without worrying about what might break. Luna, the quieter counterpart Read more
Abstract Foundations 