Writing

April 5, 2026

The Count of Monte Cristo is never truly free. He only ever trades one governing idea for another, each one feeling like liberation while owning him completely.

March 26, 2026

Some true, well-reasoned arguments predictably do more rhetorical work for bad-faith actors, or more damage through good-faith misreading, than epistemic work for anyone else. The medium can't keep them functioning as arguments.

March 12, 2026

The boundary between self and tool is maintained by friction. As that friction approaches zero, 'I' quietly expands to include what used to feel external.

March 9, 2026

21,000 paths across 12 models reveal that LLMs navigate conceptual space with consistent geometric structure — characteristic gaits, one-way streets, and landmarks they can't avoid.

March 2, 2026

An empirical analysis of how frontier models navigate latent space and negotiate meaning through 575 games of word convergence.