Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• On Systems, Granularity, and the Weird Affordances of Abstraction

  Published:Oct 9, 2025 |  at 08:15 AM

  How complex systems can be understood at multiple levels of granularity, from strategic decisions to optimization hell, and why picking the right level of abstraction matters.

• Your Brain Doesn't Have 'Present Bias', It Has Optimal Commitment Timing

  Published:Oct 5, 2025 |  at 12:00 PM

  What if 'present bias' isn't irrational at all? Drawing from motor control theory, this post argues that preference reversals emerge from optimal computational constraints—not competing neural systems. Includes testable predictions.

• Moving House

  Published:Sep 12, 2025 |  at 11:40 AM

  Residential churn rewires minds and cities. From primogeniture’s landless sons to modern renters, what moving does to people and power.

• Building a 40 Hz Gamma Entrainment Rig

  Published:Sep 12, 2025 |  at 10:15 AM

  YOU TOO CAN LISTEN TO BEEPS AND CLICKS! I built a research-style 40 Hz auditory stim rig, explain how it works, why 40 Hz, and my simple protocol. Code and web app included.

• We Need a Name for This New Thing

  Published:Aug 22, 2025 |  at 12:00 PM

  How I Produced a 300-Page Book in Three Months - exploring the new creative processes that emerge when AI touches every part of production.

• Return and Recognition: The Meaning of Homecoming

  Published:Aug 16, 2025 |  at 12:00 AM

  Why homecoming still matters