0state

Code and prose
from the ground state.

The ground state is the lowest, most stable form a system settles into once everything else burns off. That is the layer I work on: protocols, runtimes, documentation engines, real-time media. The part everything above it has to trust.

Code

Code

Think before you type.

Documentation that can drift from the spec is fiction.

Real-time is one of the few disciplines in software where the deadline is physics, not preference.

Writing

Writing
AI 10 min

The Agent Problem

We are no longer the only ones using the internet.

Mind 8 min

Mind and Fascia

What gong fu masters knew about the body, science didn't discover until recently.

Mind 8 min

Engineering the Mind

The mind is programmable. Most people never find out.

Strategy 5 min

Are You Still Paying for Docs?

The bills keep arriving for a moat that no longer exists.

Mind 7 min

Understanding Psychedelics

Plato drank it at Eleusis; the CIA later put it through MK-ULTRA. The institutions are finally circling back.

AI 10 min

The Clone Problem

When everything can be generated, the edges die first.

Society 6 min

Why Democracy Must Die

We govern with 18th century tools and wonder why nothing works.

Strategy 8 min

Conquering the Internet

The warlord doesn't chase every glint of light on the horizon.

C++ 9 min

WebRTC in 150 Lines of C++

Camera to browser in 150 lines of C++ over the WebRTC protocol.