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  • Jul 6
    Essay Thinking with places

    “A farmer has to cut down trees to create space for his farmstead and fields. Yet once the farm is established it becomes an ordered world of meaning—a place—and beyond it is the forest and space.” — …

    3 min
  • Jul 5
    Essay Chatbots, Bats & Broken Oracles

    I had the strangest conversation with my son today. There used to be a time when computers never made a mistake. It was always the user that was in error. The computer did exactly what you asked it to …

    7 min
  • May 21
    Note

    Finished chapter 1 of Shadows at Noon. A very dense 83 pages. I can see why Joya Chatterji won the Wolfson History Prize. Reading with a pencil, not a single page is unannotated!

  • May 18
    Essay The Cloister Web: Reshaping the Political Maidan

    The advent of the “Cloister Web,” a conceptual space where individuals leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to cultivate novel ideas and commit them to a persistent public memory, heralds a profound …

    4 min
  • Apr 29
    Essay We Need Homes in the Delta Quadrant

    Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan Starfleet Log, Delta Quadrant—Classified Briefing At the edge of the known, maps fail and instincts take over. We don’t just explore new worlds—we …

    18 min