Would You Watch Someone Die?
The U.S. may livestream Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad. What happens when state violence becomes transparent, permanent, and consumable online?
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The Things Beneath Us
We’re trying to build intelligence greater than our own while discovering, once again, what humans do when something cannot fight back.
FIELD NOTES #00: Vibe-Coded Founders, AI Slop & Other September Debris
Experiments, unfinished theories, useful things, dead ideas, strange obsessions, and other debris from inside my overworked coconut. Welcome to Field Notes.
Why Does Everything Have to Scale?
I make a living investing in companies that need to become enormous. I’m not convinced everything else should have to do the same.
Nobody Is Driving
AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI alignment problem one layer too low.
The Human Is Becoming Latency
Humanity would very much like to keep a human in charge of the killer robots. Unfortunately, humans are increasingly becoming the slowest part of the system.
The ROI of Staring at a Wall
Twenty minutes. No phone, no music, no work. I tried meditating for two weeks and accidentally turned doing nothing into another performance metric.
Tech Doesn’t Understand Why You Don’t Like It
Tech companies say people don’t understand the future. Maybe the bigger problem is that tech no longer understands the people expected to live in it.
The Internet Was Better When It Was Worse
Myspace was ugly, slow, chaotic, and deeply human. As the internet became cleaner, smarter, and more personalized, we may have accidentally lost something valuable along the way.
The Internet Ouroboros
AI learned from decades of human-made internet. Now it is writing the internet too. Suddenly, old books, dead forums and forgotten files have a strange new value: provenance.
Everyone Is Asking Someone Else for Money
Founders ask VCs. VCs ask LPs. Somewhere above them, someone richer is still saying no. A personal essay about money, status, bad pitches, conditional affection, and the strange humility of asking for capital.
Music for People Who Aren’t Listening
I once played live music for a Russian oligarch who never once looked at the stage. That gig is where this piece on Suno, copyright, and the AFM's lawsuit against Warner and Universal begins.
Privacy
The Most Observed Event in Human History
The 2026 World Cup became a global test bed for facial recognition, robot dogs, counter-drone systems, and surveillance infrastructure built to last.
Venture Capital
Confessions of a Compromised Capitalist
From homeless anti-capitalist to venture capitalist, a personal essay on power, hypocrisy, and the unresolved question of whether capital can be used with a conscience.