Evergreen essays
Systems, infrastructure, and the tools that coordinate modern life — examined as questions of power and design, not product hype. These evergreen essays treat technology as context for understanding how institutions and incentives reshape what we can think and do.
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AI is splitting the world in two: one where machines push the edges of human thought, and one where they flatten it. The dividing line isn't compute power. It's who gets a model that thinks back.
An AI tool's most dangerous output isn't the wrong fact. It's the confidently structured analysis built on inputs that were never there, the work that performs the shape of rigor without the substance of it.
When Hacker News gave a science-fiction author's death notice 280 upvotes, it was builders recognizing the shape of what they'd made. Dan Simmons warned a generation about indispensable systems. They built them anyway.
When the Pentagon summoned Anthropic's CEO over limits on military uses of Claude, it exposed a structural clash: corporate AI ethics meeting state power, with the commercial sector now holding the most advanced capability.