Blog
Thoughts, experiments, and stories from my corner of the internet.
On Systems That Don’t Explain Themselves
Why some systems preserve meaning by refusing to explain themselves—and how ambiguity can be a design choice rather than a failure.
Notes From S-130/190 at Colorado Firecamp
Wildland fire training reflects what experienced firefighters already understand: success depends less on individual heroics than on coordination, constraints, and how systems behave under pressure.
Coherence Without Comprehension
How modern systems stay stable when nobody understands them end-to-end—and why AI makes this everyone’s problem.
The Safety Valve We Keep Forgetting to Build
An accessible essay about models, metrics, and explanations—and the missing brakes that keep them from quietly becoming authorities.
Epistemic Trust Calibration
A lightweight framework for calibrating how much trust representations deserve in context—without adjudicating truth or replacing judgment.
The Containment Pause
A governance pattern for boundary-crossing ideas: institutions delay and reframe not to decide truth, but to manage how fast authority spreads.
Global Coherence via Local Constraint Enforcement
Why complex systems stay intelligible without central control: coherence emerges when local parts enforce constraints and absorb noise.
Hungry Hungry Hippos
A sharp little meditation on scarcity brain, manufactured lack, and the games we keep pretending are normal.
The Aliens Laugh at Our Numbers
A piece about aliens whose mathematics has evolved beyond numbers, proofs, and closed systems.
The World Is a Casino
A reflection on dopamine, attention, and how modern systems play us like machines.
Rediscovering the UT2004 Maps I Built at 13
A nostalgic look back at the chaotic maps I built in UnrealEd as a teenager, and how they shaped the way I build things today.