Essay
5 essays.
- The firm grows a basement Two twenty-four-year-old managers at OpenAI wrote a long piece about where AI sits once it joins a company. I went down through all three arrangements with a pencil, and the column that stays blank is the one where somebody has to keep the books. Essay
- The lamp in the stairwell Attention is the one thing nobody can print more of, so watching turned into a trade. I read a long letter about capturing it, and kept thinking about the lamp in my stairwell, which hears a footstep and never learns a face. Essay
- Allegedly the singularity has begun: three sums from an old-fashioned man One long post says we are already inside the singularity, with five pieces of evidence, a steelmanned opposition and a five-year rota. I will not argue about the word. I only want to redo its three sums — and afterwards you may notice that how clever the machine is matters less than who signs the sheet. Essay
- One hour a day, 365 hours a year: which half of Dan Koe's deep focus actually lands An hour a day sounds like a slogan until you multiply it: 365 hours is 45 full working days, and a lifetime of conscious bandwidth is about 15.8 GB. What survives from Dan Koe's focus essay is a five-layer frame; what does not is his sample. Essay
- Life is meaningless, the things you love are a con, and anger takes strength Three sentences that sound like defeat, put next to each other, turn out to be a working worldview: uncover the floor, call the furniture a forgery, then admit you cannot lift it. Six thoughts at night, with a short film in the Chinese version. Essay