Category: Notes
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Kospet Tank M4
I’ve been testing the Kospet Tank M4 special edition smartwatch. It’s a fraction of the cost of something like the Apple Ultra smartwatch. Performance so far has been top-notch.
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What happens to human meaning-making when thought itself becomes networked?
I’m not asking what happens to productivity or output. I’m asking what happens to meaning. When thinking is distributed across human-AI systems, something genuinely new appears. Not better thinking or faster thinking. A different category. Meaning that emerges from the interchange itself, that no single node, human or machine, can claim to have authored. You…
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Ted Nelson: The universe is a system of ever-changing relationships
This short clip from Ted Nelson in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is less about technology and more about a philosophy of connection. Nelson reflects on the core insight that has guided his life’s work: reality is not made of isolated things but of relationships, connections, and ever-changing patterns. The central idea…
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When the hammer works, it disappears. You just …
When the hammer works, it disappears. You just hammer. The tool recedes into pure function. Then it breaks. Snaps, slips, refuses. Suddenly, the hammer has an inside. A being separate from its use. Heidegger noticed this first. But he left the human at the centre of the story. The hammer becomes visible when it fails…
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I love a good samurai film. Not for …
I love a good samurai film. Not for the swordplay, but for what happens when an absolute code meets a world that doesn’t care about your code. The best ones are philosophical texts in motion. Honour as ontology. Discipline as worldview. Violence as the moment when the story you’ve been living inside reveals whether it…
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Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly. When he …
Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he wasn’t sure if he was a man who’d dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it was a man. What gets missed is what comes after. He doesn’t resolve it. He doesn’t land on an answer. He names the gap between the two…
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I’ve been working at the intersection of text …
I’ve been working at the intersection of text and ontology long enough to know when something maps the territory I’m standing in. These seven propositions aren’t philosophy about text. They’re operating instructions. Text is not a record of thought. Text is thought. The distinction collapses the moment you stop treating writing as transcription. You don’t…
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I was in the bookstore just browsing when …
I was in the bookstore just browsing when a couple of thoughts passed through my mind. The first one was: there’s just so much competition for your eyes. Thousands of books sitting there, all trying in their own quiet way to get picked. Some have famous names on the cover. Some have those bold, clever…
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The Text Hacker Self-Portrait I keep returning to …
The Text Hacker Self-Portrait I keep returning to this image: myself hunched over a keyboard in the dark, manipulating text to alter reality. Reframing ideas until they yield something new. It arrived this morning in hypnagogic space, and it’s more accurate than anything I’ve deliberately constructed about myself. The connection between “text-based ontologist” and “mind…
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The answer I got back from the question …
The answer I got back from the question I carried this morning… Tuesday. Early morning walk. The question I carried out with me was this: What is already true in me that I’ve been pretending I don’t know? The answer came fast. That’s how you know it’s the real one. You ask and the thing…
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“10:46 — Fell into an internet blackhole again. …
“10:46 — Fell into an internet blackhole again. Back to work.” Something honest in that line. Not a confession: a sighting. The kind of thing you’d never write in an end-of-day journal because by then the story has been tidied up. You worked hard. You made progress. A few distractions, sure, but nothing worth dwelling…
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The happiness paradox: why being good is harder …
The happiness paradox: why being good is harder than you think Most of us think goodness should make us happy. Be kind. Be generous. Tell the truth. Do the right thing. Surely that should bring peace. But here’s the paradox: being good often makes life harder before it makes it better. Because goodness asks something…
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I have been thinking about the vocabulary we …
I have been thinking about the vocabulary we use for the inner life. How much of it actually belongs to us. Most of the words we reach for when we try to describe what is happening inside, sadness, anxiety, frustration, and fear, were handed to us. By language. By family. By the culture we were…
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The danger of romanticising your own life is …
The danger of romanticising your own life is that you eventually stop living it. You start performing it instead. You become a spectator of your own experience, constantly checking to see if the lighting is right and if the dialogue sounds profound. You begin to curate moments instead of inhabiting them. Even your struggles start…
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Here be dragon The old cartographers had a …
Here be dragon The old cartographers had a habit worth noticing. When they ran out of known world, when the coastline ended and the sea opened into pure conjecture, they did not leave the map blank. They filled it. Here be dragons. Not emptiness. Not absence. Something living, dangerous, and magnificent waiting at the edge…
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Your self-story keeps updating in the direction of …
Your self-story keeps updating in the direction of what it already believes. If the story says you have a problem with authority, then every exchange with a boss, a teacher, a system, or even a strong personality gets filtered through that frame. You don’t just experience the moment. You interpret it through the story. And…
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People think I’m repeating myself when I say …
People think I’m repeating myself when I say I’m all about Psyche and Soul. They see a linguistic loop, but I see an alchemical operation. To the dictionary, they are the same word. To the seeker, they are two different sides of the Great Work. The Alchemical Split Psyche is the Vas Hermeticum. It is…
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There is a quietly subversive move hiding in …
There is a quietly subversive move hiding in plain sight here. This essay by Richard Beard looks like it’s arguing against AI, but the more interesting thing is that it is actually redefining what writing is. Richard Beard is not saying “humans are better writers.” He is saying that memoir is not a genre at…
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Likes Computers can’t surprise by Richard Beard. There …
There is a quietly subversive move hiding in plain sight here. The essay looks like it’s arguing against AI, but the more interesting thing is that it is actually redefining what writing is. Richard Beard is not saying “humans are better writers.” He is saying that memoir is not a genre at all. It is…
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