Writing

Are You Still Paying for Docs?

The docs look good. So do everyone else’s. When polished pages become cheap and agents read the specifications, what exactly is the subscription paying for?

WebRTC in 150 Lines of C++

A webcam, a browser, and 150 lines of C++. Follow the frames through capture, encoding, and WebRTC, with the complete icey application and the build instructions to run it yourself.

The Agent Problem

We are no longer the only ones using the internet. Agents can spend and make commitments, but someone else lives with the consequences. Who supplies the judgment, the limits, and the liability?

Understanding Psychedelics

Shamans, chemists, and the uneasy relationship between direct experience and scientific explanation. What psychedelic states might reveal about the filters through which we ordinarily see the world.

Why Democracy Must Die

Put a hundred people in a room. Would they elect one person to do their thinking? Forum Government starts with a different premise: deliberate together, agree on values, and judge policy against them.

Conquering the Internet

Warlords, gold rushes, and the discipline of choosing ground you can hold. Why understanding a problem deeply is a better starting point than chasing the next model release.

Engineering the Mind

Knowing the movements isn’t the same as understanding the art. The same holds for thought: how habit shapes perception, what paradox can teach, and why practice changes the person doing it.

Mind and Fascia

What was Chu Shong Tin trying to teach his students to feel? Nim Lik, fascia, and the gap between copying a movement and developing the internal state that makes it work.

The Clone Problem

Open ten generated websites and the family resemblance is hard to miss. What gets lost when models learn from models, and why the strange, difficult edges of human work matter.