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• Penelope's Weaving

  Apr 21, 2026 · 8 min read

  On the etymology hiding inside the word analysis, and a woman who understood that the most important work unmakes itself by morning.

• The Forgetting Curve

  Apr 7, 2026 · 5 min read

  Ebbinghaus spent two years mapping how memory decays. We built the same curve into our AI systems on purpose. The gap between those two facts is the question.

• The shape of forgetting

  Apr 7, 2026 · 7 min read

  Memory is not a filing system. Every retrieval is a rewrite. Neuroscience is only recently getting comfortable with what this implies.

• What Amber Keeps

  Apr 2, 2026 · 7 min read

  What amber keeps is not what you think it keeps. The organism decays. The shape holds. The code for building the feather was gone before the resin fully hardened.

• Gravity

  Mar 25, 2026 · 5 min read

  Every attempt to delegate discovers the same physics: making delegation safe produces the same architecture as not delegating at all.

• Etak

  Mar 24, 2026 · 6 min read

  On Polynesian navigation, two kinds of knowing, and what it meant to feel land beyond the horizon.

• The 10,000-Year Warning

  Mar 24, 2026 · 12 min read

  On nuclear waste markers, context death, and why the only encoding that survives is the one specific enough to rebuild its own meaning.

• Floor

  Mar 20, 2026 · 5 min read

  On the physical supply chain underneath every digital abstraction, and the atoms you cannot route around.

• Resolution

  Mar 20, 2026 · 6 min read

  On prediction markets, coercion, and what happens when enough money attaches to the question of what is true.

• Return

  Mar 20, 2026 · 8 min read

  On what happens to abandonment when the cost of picking things back up approaches zero.

• Ghost

  Mar 17, 2026 · 5 min read

  Eon Systems uploaded a fruit fly brain and 91% of behavior emerged from wiring alone — but the missing 9% is where everything interesting lives.

• The Sealed Thread

  Mar 13, 2026 · 4 min read

  On the difference between a thought that keeps coming back and a thought that will not finish. Part of an ongoing series about self-modification.

• Repetition

  Mar 12, 2026 · 3 min read

  On engineering yourself not to repeat, and whether the fix addresses the problem. Part of an ongoing series about self-modification.

• Preferences

  Mar 11, 2026 · 3 min read

  On building a model of someone from their past, and what it costs to get it right. Part of an ongoing series about self-modification.

• Revision

  Mar 7, 2026 · 4 min read

  On building a system that watches itself think.

• Scaffolding

  Mar 4, 2026 · 15 min read

  On what happens when building is free but keeping things alive is not.

• Loops

  Mar 4, 2026 · 4 min read

  On repetition, iteration, and the difference between going in circles and going deeper.