
Tasks I can sniff-check
June 19, 2026Funny how 'only delegate what you can check' quietly becomes 'only check what was easy to delegate.' The dangerous, tedious work sails through unread, the coffee gets made, and the part that actually mattered is the one part nobody bothered to look at.

Determinism
June 17, 2026We call it a law of nature, then quietly admit we can't reproduce 'identical conditions' for a balloon, let alone an electron. Determinism stays mystical for the most embarrassing reason: it might be perfectly true and still completely useless, since the universe declines to hand over its initial conditions and the splat arrives on schedule regardless. Peer review pending. Forever.

Solved decades ago
June 14, 2026Cobalt was supposed to be a closed case, a quiet square on the periodic table you skim past on the way to the interesting elements, until someone tapped it the right way and the textbook trapdoor swung open onto unexpected quantum complexity that had been hiding there the whole time.

Eighty pages to one word
June 8, 2026Feed a dense report through GPT, then Gemini, then Claude, each one dutifully summarizing the last, until eighty pages of careful nuance collapse into a single, supremely confident GROWTH.

Playing with fire
June 7, 2026Yes to all is a personality, not a setting. Running Claude Code in bypass-permission mode, where every prompt is a quiet yes and every yes is a small, perfectly manageable fire.
Once a year, I print the lot in a small risograph zine.
52 pages, two colors, hand-stitched. Subscribers to the Sunday letter get first dibs and the wholesale price. The 2026 edition will go out in November.
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The cast — everyone who's wandered through.