Articles treat various subjects in a single page, contrary to series.

2026

Legibility Kills What It Measures Legibility Kills What It Measures

What happens when AI makes everything legible? The things that worked because they couldn’t be seen clearly may stop working once they can.

Friction as Luxury: What We Lose When AI Gives Us What We Want Friction as Luxury: What We Lose When AI Gives Us What We Want

The scarcity that matters most in a post AGI world won’t be compute or energy. It will be desire itself.

China is trying to commoditize the complement China is trying to commoditize the complement

What happens to the West’s services advantage when strong AI models are free, portable, and running on every laptop?

Building a SaaS with Elixir/Phoenix and React Building a SaaS with Elixir/Phoenix and React

Our stack and practices for building SaaS applications: Elixir on the backend, React on the frontend, Nix for everything else. No Docker. No Kubernetes.

Unprepared for What's Coming Unprepared for What’s Coming

Humanity is completely unprepared for what’s coming. The pace of AI advancement might give people months to adapt, not decades.

Type Systems: From Generics to Dependent Types Type Systems: From Generics to Dependent Types

A practical guide through the landscape of type systems, from everyday generics to dependent types that prove correctness, with examples in Rust, Scala, and Idris

2025

The Death of the Inner Self The Death of the Inner Self

Individuality is a coordination technology. It emerged under specific historical conditions, and those conditions are weakening as computation, capital, and automated feedback loops absorb the functions it once performed.

Notes on permanence, time, and ergodicity Notes on permanence, time, and ergodicity

A framework for building institutions that compound under pressure: treat time as information, preserve loop integrity, and focus on domains where repetition improves judgment.

Crypto doctrine Crypto doctrine

Crypto found product-market fit where trust is weakest: inflationary or censored economies, and internet-native communities that need programmable coordination and markets.

2023

Transforming the Future with Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Fully Homomorphic Encryption and new Distributed Systems algorithms Transforming the Future with Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Fully Homomorphic Encryption and new Distributed Systems algorithms

The proving-verification asymmetry in zero-knowledge proofs is what makes them economically meaningful: proving is expensive, verification is cheap, and that gap changes what systems can be built without trust.