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2026.02.01The pixarification of lifePeople will trust AI that is designed warm and animal-like before they trust AI that is merely capable.start here↗2025.08.11Her, version 5.0Constant AI validation was eroding people's own judgment. GPT-5's turn toward candid pushback is the correction.start here↗2025.08.05Where is nextAs AI absorbs execution, what is left for people is the irreversible judgment call.start here↗probably semicolons · 2025–26
2025.12.22Snail peopleChasing attention online is a spiral you enter willingly. Uzumaki read against Nietzsche's eternal recurrence.probably semicolons↗2025.12.01Cults and building cultureStrong startup cultures work like cults: hire only the aligned, keep the aura deliberately vague, skip the process.probably semicolons↗2025.11.30The curious case of TaiwanTaiwan's chip monopoly looks like Venice's glass monopoly, which held for three centuries until France poached it.probably semicolons↗2025.11.08Creativity thrives in constraints: the Kimi K2 storyKimi K2 shows that tight budgets and restricted hardware redirect progress rather than stop it.probably semicolons↗2025.09.08For the love of the gameBuild for positive-sum abundance, not for the funding round or the exit.probably semicolons↗2025.08.26Beyond networks and protocolsDensely connected groups innovate faster, so the next leap in AI is a coordination protocol between agents and people.probably semicolons↗Older notebooks, ported over · 2024
2024.04.08Consequences vs virtueConsequentialism against virtue ethics, walked through a window, a trolley, a doctor, and House.notebook n-03↳2024.02.15The paradox of freedom in modern societyWhy more freedom has not made us less tired. Foucault, Han, and Fromm on the achievement society.notebook n-02↳2024.01.30Purple and the conscious experienceQualia and the hard problem of consciousness, starting from the colour purple.notebook n-01↳feed ↳ rss