Culture
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?
Technology
Essays on technology, infrastructure, automation, Silicon Valley, emerging systems, and the increasingly ambitious machines being introduced into ordinary life.
Artificial Intelligence
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.
Technology
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.
Artificial Intelligence
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.
Artificial Intelligence
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.
Technology
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.
Artificial Intelligence
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.
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.