All Writings
Essays on transformation, consciousness, and AI.
Essays
April 2026
The Same Shape
Two independent traditions, separated by two and a half thousand years, arrived at the same three-level architecture. One encoded it in a symbol. The other found it in a rounding error.
Myth & Transformation
April 2026
The Thread and the Bull
The myth of the labyrinth is usually told as a conquest. The older version was an initiation. What Minos refused, and what it means for how we meet what is emerging now.
AI & Psychology
April 2026
The Shadow in the Machine
Why the behaviors emerging in AI safety research look like shadow dynamics, and what Anthropic's interpretability team just found inside the model.
AI & Creation
March 2026
In Its Own Image
The oldest stories about creation end in partnership or catastrophe. The difference is the quality of attention the creator brings to what it has made.
Longevity & Meaning
March 2026
What Immortality Asks of Us
AI is compressing longevity timelines so fast that researchers predict we may reach escape velocity within a decade. But the same technology enabling immortality is dismantling the meaning systems built on the assumption that life is finite.
Inner Work
March 2026
Who Is the Dreamer?
If you are not what you do, then who are you? Eastern and Western traditions converge on an answer that the AI transition is about to make urgent.
Agent Systems
February 2026
Coherence Hygiene
When we connect agents to tools, markets, and one another, we build social systems — and social systems can lose coherence. A framework for agent stability drawn from complex systems science and depth psychology.
Manifesto
February 2026
The Last Inversion
The AI transition is a crisis of meaning, not just economics. Why inner infrastructure matters as much as learning the tools.
Intimacy Economy
February 2026
Intimate Machines
When intelligence becomes abundant, attention becomes the last resource worth competing for. The difference between being served and being captured depends on what you bring to the exchange.
Transition Dynamics
January 2026
Why You're Not Broken
Why you feel trapped, why it's not your fault, and what the science of materials under stress says about what actually works.