My Family Built Civilizations With Stories. Now I Study How They Work
June 20, 2025 · 11 min read
How my Mormon ancestors built civilizations, and because of that heritage, I see the world differently.
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A place to share my thoughts and curiosities with the world.
Your AI Should Insult You: Why I Built a Digital Court Jester
June 3, 2025 · 6 min read
Most AI assistants are trained to be your biggest fan. They'll praise your half-baked ideas, gently suggest improvements, and cushion every criticism with three compliments. It's like having a personal cheerleader who never tells you when your presentation sucks.
Read more →Enterprise Senolytics: Clearing the Zombie Processes
May 25, 2025 · 12 min read
Identifying and eliminating zombie processes and legacy systems that drain resources while providing minimal value - a systematic approach to organizational rejuvenation.
Read more →Platform as a Product: Evolutionary Governance in Practice
May 24, 2025 · 11 min read
Treating internal platforms as products rather than infrastructure, and how evolutionary governance can transform developer experience and organizational effectiveness.
Read more →The Desire Path Problem - Why Platform Governance Fails
May 15, 2025 · 10 min read
Exploring the emergent complexity of socio-technical systems and why traditional governance models fall short in the face of organic organizational evolution.
Read more →How Sound Money Made Me Think Differently About Everything
May 1, 2025 · 9 min read
How Bitcoin's monetary properties and the erosion of sound money have transformed my worldview.
Read more →How Sound Money Made Me Think Differently About Everything
April 19, 2025 · 15 min read
How Bitcoin's monetary properties and the erosion of sound money have transformed my worldview.
Read more →A Dog Lover's Lament: How our Loneliness Turned Wolves into Anxious Children
April 2, 2025 · 10 min read
How our loneliness turned wolves into anxious pets, and now AI is being groomed as our next emotional support system. This essay explores how our fear of human rejection drives us to seek substitutes
Read more →The Trails That Changed How I See Systems
March 14, 2025 · 6 min read
Have you ever noticed those worn trails cutting across perfectly manicured lawns? The ones that ignore the carefully planned sidewalks, creating their own routes between buildings? I always noticed them. Something about those unofficial paths felt significant, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why. Their ubiquity seemed to signal something important about human nature or how the world actually works.
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