Recreating the iridescent boundary from Alex Garland's cosmic horror movie Annihilation

Frontier labs share in the upside of AI. Society needs to decide now who answers for the downside

Kurt Vonnegut's advice to students at Xavier High School on how to make art and grow your soul

Why the old hunt for investment ideas is failing—and what should replace it

How Extract and Partial keep related types in sync without duplication

Some thoughts on taste, status, and buying things that earn their keep.

How pluralistic institutions erode from within through asymmetric pressure, not open revolt

A response to Chetan Bhagat—and why systems, not culture, explain the surge

The tools and frameworks I’m carrying into 2025 to ship faster and scale cleanly

Make AI agents more reliable by generating JSON schemas before you solve the task

Why believing the world is fair can be both a dangerous bias and a useful spur to action

On grace, detachment, and the nearly miraculous sensation of being released from the ground

Why persistence looks like madness until the moment it works

Examining the claims of personal choice and religious obligation at the heart of the hijab debate.

How open platforms, strong communities, and shared standards unlock new blockchain experiences

Reverse-engineering CryptoKitties genes to predict breeding outcomes