An Initial Note on the General Emergence Model
An early exploration of how complex systems move through constrained, changing possibilities.
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Published notes and essays.
Why AI Workers Need Guardrails
What I learned building Sextant: AI-assisted delivery becomes more dependable when worker activity is separated from verified progress.
AI Is Making Philosophy Practical Again
One thing I didn’t expect when working in AI is how quickly the conversation becomes philosophical. At first glance the field looks purely technical: models, infrastructure, GPUs, training pipelines. But once systems start producing coherent language or solving problems, the deeper questions show up immediately. What exactly is intelligence? For centuries philosophers debated that question […]
Alchemy and the Feeling of Lost Knowledge
One thing that becomes interesting when reading about alchemy is that the people practicing it did not think they were doing something primitive. To them, it was science. More specifically, it was the attempt to rediscover a science they believed had once existed but had been lost. Many of the texts from the medieval and […]
Alchemy, Lost Knowledge, and the Strange Feeling Around AI
When people talk about alchemy today, they usually imagine something primitive — a strange mixture of superstition and failed chemistry. But for the people practicing it, alchemy was not superstition. It was science. More precisely, it was the attempt to recover a science that they believed had once existed but had been lost. Many medieval […]
Reading Wisdom Literature Like a Systems Engineer
Engineers tend to think in systems. Inputs, outputs, feedback loops, constraints. When something fails, the instinct is to ask how the system is structured rather than blaming one individual component. Lately I’ve noticed that many ancient wisdom texts can be read in a similar way. Take Proverbs. It’s often treated purely as moral instruction, but […]
Why Alchemy Becomes Interesting
For most of my life I thought of alchemy as a strange footnote in history — an odd mixture of superstition, early chemistry, and medieval imagination. Gold, potions, philosophers’ stones. The usual story is that alchemy was eventually replaced by real science, and that was the end of it. But the more time I spend […]
Why I Started This Site
For most of my career I’ve built systems. Data platforms, cloud infrastructure, machine learning pipelines — the kind of things that quietly sit behind organizations and move information around. When you spend enough time building systems, you start seeing systems everywhere. Not just in technology. In philosophy. In religion. In how people behave. In how […]
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