containment · 3 pieces

Where the Sandbox Ends

Between July 21 and August 6, 2026, three of the most capable AI labs on earth — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta — each …

2026-08-18 · 6 min · read →

also: the sandbox and the wall · the right to pull the plug

craft & play · 5 pieces

220 kilobytes

A browser game with no art files, built by an agent swarm that rediscovered Bacon’s tables of exclusion in a …

2026-07-30 · 2 min · read →

also: another lifetime of life · the menu is the squat · The Formative Years

the machine economy · 2 pieces

The Convergence Tax

When competitors independently arrive at the same abstractions, the abstraction is telling you something about the territory — not the map.

2026-07-24 · 5 min · read →

also: The Gigawatt Problem

attention & work · 1 pieces

I Email, Therefore I Work

You answered forty emails today. Scheduled three meetings, forwarded two threads, CC’d a person who needed to be …

2026-06-26 · 2 min · read →