Essays
One-offs and orphans. Ideas that don't fit a series yet. Experiments, responses, tangents that turned into their own thing.
One-offs and orphans. Ideas that don't fit a series yet.
Some pieces resist categorization. They're experiments, responses, tangents that turned into their own thing. The junk drawer with the good stuff in it.
Essays migrate into series as patterns emerge. What starts here may end up in its own hub.
The Pleasure That Backfires
Sadists experience genuine hedonic spikes during aggression, followed by proportional crashes. Intensity requires negotiated boundaries to be sustainable.
Why Loneliness Hits Dysregulated Nervous Systems Like a Truck
The co-regulation you're missing. Why isolation hurts more when you're already unstable—and what the neuroscience says about repair.
Why AI Makes Smart People Smarter and Everyone Else Replaceable
AI creates a cognitive divide: experts sharpen thinking while others experience mental model erosion. Your spine is your moat.
The Machine Learns What Taleb Already Knew
AI independently discovered what Taleb argued for decades: financial returns follow fat-tailed distributions. Standard risk models systematically underestimate tail events.
