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Read in order
The 1602 Machine
A five-act novel on the moral and legal architecture AI will need as it gains economic and social agency, with references to popular science fiction set against real-world cases.
Blueprint for Responsible AI Datacenters
A seven-part blueprint for datacenters that earn their place in a community: zero water impact, zero power impact, brownfield sites, economic reciprocity, civic design and local education.
Sovereign AI Assistant
Own your AI. Which laptops run models locally, how to build a private assistant for yourself, what a pod-scale setup looks like, and what you can build on top of it.
Singularity and Abundance
Looking at lessons from the past to prepare for a post-scarcity future.
Automation and Accountability
Two companion essays on who answers when AI automates high-stakes decisions, from stale assumptions in synthetic text to kinetic warfare.
Gen X and the 90s
Two Gen X essays on 90s music, unsupervised freedom, and the lost luxury of an unmonitored mind.
Latest
Kubernetes Was Built for This: Designing an Agent-Ready Platform
Agents now produce work faster than enterprise infrastructure can absorb it. The answer is not to abandon Kubernetes. It is to finish it.
How Gen X Built a Personal Philosophy on Misheard Lyrics
Rorschach Tests in Drop-D Tuning and the Last Secrets of the Analog Afternoon
When Leaving on Time Feels Dangerous
Why chronic crunch is a leadership failure, and how to log off with dignity.
The Architecture of Cosmic Relief
How Relinquishing Macro-Control Evicts Parasitic Thought and Restores Human Agency
The Parable of the Outsourced Engineer
How a Fired 2013 Developer Invented the 2026 Agentic Workflow
“AI Is a Scam” Will Blind Us to the Wolves
Silicon Valley spent twenty-five years training the public to expect a grift. Now that the industrial engine has actually arrived, our well-earned cynicism has become a fatal liability.
Reclaiming Workplace Agency: The Death of Drudgery Is a Human Renaissance
How automating the mental assembly line liberates us from industrial survivalism to rebuild trust, curiosity, and the latent backlog of meaningful work.
The Ghost in the Interpreter: Why the Next PHP Zero-Day Might Erase the Early Web
When automated exploits meet abandoned code, the real casualty isn’t corporate data — it’s thirty years of human history. Here is how sovereign AI maintainers can hold the line.
Spycraft and Smart TVs
Why the OpenAI Espionage Scandal Exposed the Biggest Blind Spot in Enterprise Security
The Architecture of the Infinite Con
From Theranos’s Black Box to Elon Musk’s Kinetic Hyperstition