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Tradpute

Most of what we’re calling “AI” at the product layer is just traditional computing in a trenchcoat. I’ve been using a word for this: tradpute. Traditional computing. CPUs, …

the + convention

The + suffix is the most efficient way to express human-AI partnership in language. One character, universally understood, already loaded with meaning: more, enhanced, evolved, additive. me+ means …

reinvent the email

I’ve been complaining about email for years. It was always a bad system doing an important job. But now? Now it’s not even doing a job. Think about what email actually is. It’s …

I Thought of This When I Was Eight

Kid logic: take a computer, have it try one character of code. Run it. Fails. Try the next. Keep going, add characters, eventually something doesn’t fail — mark it, keep building. A million …

The Hard Part Isn't the Tool

I set up OpenClaw in forty minutes. Gateway running, Discord connected, models hooked up, skills installed. It worked first try. Good docs, clean implementation, zero drama. Then I opened SOUL.md — …

slashface

Slashface, V3R. Joshua Tree. Probably 2014 or so. This is a highball. You fall, you break something. No rope, no pad that matters at that height. Just you and the rock and the decision to keep going. …

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