Builds, patterns, and shifts.
Writing at three altitudes. 20 feet for concrete experiments, 2,000 feet for the patterns underneath them, and 20,000 feet for the structural shifts overhead.
Where the Table Lives
What pockets of reducibility tell us about why context engineering works, why small models are enough for most tasks, and why the creative leap still needs the whole stack.
The Agent Panel
Three hundred synthetic shoppers chose among real Chicago medspa shelves. One modeled location became the obvious safe choice. Three disappeared. The sharpest split was not distance. It was visible pricing.
The Compression Canopy
Every word is a compressed handle on reality. AI learned to read the handles, not the reality, and that is both why it works and where the next edge lives.
The Branches We Skipped
Attention is finite at every scale. AI moves the bottleneck at all of them at once, reaching branches of the possibility tree nobody could climb alone.
The Shape of the Room
How 100 AI agents debated Peloton in 2021 and converged on what later happened. The same setup re-run on Lululemon stayed split, which is the part that matters.
Reach
How breadth of mind decides which work survives the AI era, from the dormant reserve of your mind to the top rung of every ladder.
The Principal and the Swarm
How AI agents turned one investor into a research firm. Eight AI-native intelligence experiments built from scratch in days.
The New Stable Orbits
How AI is rewriting which businesses can exist, and quietly opening the door to millions of new ones.
More essays in flight. The notebook is open.