The Mechanics of Dependency and the Power of Silence
We like to imagine that security is something we own, but most of it depends on remaining useful to systems that feel no loyalty toward...
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Reality Looks Complicated Because We Meet It Too Late
An essay about systems, feedback loops, and the gap between an event and the mechanism that produced it. Why more...
Truth, Sanity, and the Self
Walk down a busy street and look at the faces. Every single person you pass is living in a movie...
Levels of Awareness: Why Connection Fails
The tragedy of human interaction is often attributed to a failure of language. We operate on the comforting assumption that...