I really enjoy programming with AI agents. This is the closest I’ve ever come to having magical superpowers. Today’s AI is already smart, capable, resourceful and agentic enough to bring me joy. This post is about the flip side of that: for most people I know, this fun turns into a death march. We h...
Research: parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust I was out walking the dog when I got curious about how easy/di…
In the medieval period, curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information
Explorer? Being lost makes you fully present? The mystery of distance. Desire cherished instead of satisfied. Similar th…
Practical tools for design engineers to explore possible futures through speculative design
The midterm elections are being reflected in the markets, and in the brazen behaviors of business leaders who don’t seem…
Why a mid-life crisis is impossible to ignore. The post Expect Less and Appreciate More appeared first on A Wealth of Co…
On Muslim Migration and the Long Revolt Against Jerusalem, or, Notes Toward a History of Western Dissolution
These people are *figuratively* Ayn Rand villains
Almost every attack on attribution science is an attack on the scientists. Almost none of them engage the science.
To love is to sign a contract with loss. To love anyway is both the great tragedy and the great triumph of life. When two people have loved one another, each has become embedded in the marrow of the other’s being and both have had a profound experience that cannot be unhad even when the slender thre...
Read slowly. There is no hurry.