Articles

Ideas captured mid-flight, arranged for deeper reflection.

Agency
Personal

Agency

January 13, 2025

There’s this story we tell ourselves in some corners of the world, about starting from nothing and building something real. It’s flawed, messy even, but you can’t deny it’s got a pull—people keep chasing it, generation after generation.

Bach's Free Will
Philosophy

Bach's Free Will

February 9, 2025

Unlike an A.I., whose choices we can trace to lines of code, humans could be operating on a process so tangled that its very mystery might be why we feel free.

The Nature Of Nature
Philosophy

The Nature Of Nature

March 25, 2025

What separates a smartphone from a spiderweb? One’s a gleaming gadget, the other a sticky trap—yet both come from creatures shaped by this planet. We label one 'artificial' and the other 'natural,' but what if that line’s blurrier than we think?

Quantum Hypergraph Networks
Technology

Quantum Hypergraph Networks

January 24, 2025

Hypergraph-based architectures already outperform GNNs on multi-party tasks. Quantum implementations could take this further, using entanglement to model collective influence—faster, deeper, and natively parallel.

Technical Pareidolia
Finance

Technical Pareidolia

November 30, 2024

As markets weave their endless riddle, traders peer into the void of price and time, seeking portents in the flux. Technical pareidolia, like a siren’s call, hints that the patterns they chase may be but echoes of a dream.

The Cold Light
Abstract

The Cold Light

March 2, 2025

A flicker of light pierced our ancient shadows. Now, poised on an unseen edge, humanity faces a veiled choice—ascend or fade. The stars hold their silence.

What Is A Man, Really?
Personal

What Is A Man, Really?

November 20, 2024

There’s this thing in the air sometimes, a whisper of “you’re not cutting it.” Hits guys I know hard, even the solid ones. Life’s too messy for that, though—you’re here, you’re doing you. That’s the piece that sticks. Hope the boys enjoy this.

Who Set That System Up?
Sociology

Who Set That System Up?

December 19, 2024

The notion that a single group could orchestrate the vast tapestry of human society oversimplifies history’s complexity. Power, woven through biology and survival, defies such tidy explanations. To unravel these threads is to confront a truth far messier than any one narrative can hold.