Essays posts

A green iguana sitting with regal composure on a velvet cushion beside a small golden crown, under a single spotlight

Jun 11, 2026 12 min

On the Last Human Sports: The Rules of Trolling

There is a leaderboard for everything now. Two games take no machine entry — and one of them has iguanas in it.

LLMs Trolling

A lone robed figure climbs the long central stair of a vast stepped stone temple toward a fire at its summit, at cold ashen dawn

Jun 8, 2026 22 min

You'll Understand When You're Older

the catastrophe you never look up

Modernity Moloch

An open antique naturalist's field guide on a dark wooden desk in lamplight: a hand-drawn engraving of a horned creature on the right page, dense handwritten annotations on the left, a dip pen in the gutter

Jun 3, 2026 18 min

A Monster Manual

a field guide to your own catastrophes

Craft Self Knowledge

A wooden Trojan horse on wheels in a city avenue at dawn, watched from a high window

May 28, 2026 7 min

Call me Cassandra

Three years holding this back. Done holding.

Authenticity LLMs

A slender stone tower on a hill at dusk, one upper window lit warm orange; a small post-house with a shelf of bound journals visible through its window sits at the foot of the hill; a muddy path connects them

May 13, 2026 14 min

Of Solitary Vice

Most work that feels productive is self-referential, and the small warm room is unlikely to tell you so. An essay on the alchemist's tower, the journals at the foot of the hill, and the visitor whose advice is absorbed, not refused.

Craft Isolation

Solitary figure descending a mountain path toward a lit city in the valley at dawn

May 12, 2026 16 min

This Is the Lucky One

Most decisions you celebrate were wrong, and nothing in your week is going to tell you which ones. An essay on feedback loops, falsification, and the discipline of being made to find out.

Feedback Loops Research Life