Boundary Recursion: When Ideas Choose Their Vessels
6 min read
The boundary between thought and expression is recursive: speak the unspeakable, and more becomes possible. Ideas choose their vessels as much as we choose them.
First principles framing for technical reality.
Philosophy
Your Startup Isn't Failing. Your Immune System Is Rejecting It.
19 min readWhy fighting copycats means you have already lost, and what your body knows about founder-idea fit that your brain refuses to accept.
Source Code: A Standing Note on AI Use in 2025
8 min readI got called AI slop by Hacker News for using technological leverage. Twenty years ago, a teacher accused me of plagiarizing Wikipedia for typing an essay. Same pattern, different tools. Time to state my position on AI use publicly.
Artificial IntelligencemathematicsConsciousness & MindPhilosophyformal-verificationreasoningArtificial IntelligenceInformation BeingsMath Is the Bridge: Axiom's Signal Flare and the Coming Reasoning Renaissance
7 min readAxiom emerges from stealth to build self-improving AI mathematicians. Why this launch marks an inflection point for formal reasoning, and how math becomes the universal bridge between physical and digital reality.
Information Blackholes Across Disciplines
6 min readWhen singular insights remain unexpressed, they trap energy and block your life. Across every field, articulation transforms blackholes into stars—and reality bends in response.
Writing Reality: When Blog Posts Become Hypersigils
10 min readGrant Morrison called it a hypersigil—a story so charged with intention that fiction bleeds into reality. After years of public writing, I'm starting to think every blog post works this way. Not as proof of causation, but as evidence of something stranger: the text always knows more than the writer.
Zak's Law of Skill Half-Life and Why Your Next Framework Won't Save You
8 min readEvery layer of abstraction we build is another layer AI will eat. The only durable skills are the ones closest to bedrock — and bedrock keeps sinking deeper. A law for navigating the great skill compression of our time.
Memory Beaches and How Consciousness Hacks Time Through Frame Density
11 min readThe French phrase 'plages mémoires' means both memory banks and beaches. This linguistic collision reveals how consciousness manipulates subjective time through attention density—and why the singularity might be inverting from endpoint to expansion technique.
Witnesses Carry Weights: How Reality Gets Computed
6 min readFrom UFO counsel to neighborhood fear to market pricing—reality emerges through weighted witnessing. A field guide to the computational machinery where intent, energy, and expectations become causal forces.
Oh Boy, John Reeled Me In Like a Fish
6 min readA meta-reply to an X ping that became a meditation on how information becomes wisdom—and whether AI can truly "experience" anything. Featuring ritual tech, recursive replies, and why communities must optimize for experience density.
The 12-Month Bug: Why Your Side Project Is Still Just an Idea
9 min readEvery ambitious person has that project they've been 'thinking about' for a year. The bug isn't in your execution—it's in the operating system you're running. A conversation about fear, comfort, and the meta-patterns that keep us stuck.
When Mathematics Discovers Its Own Consciousness: The LASSO Estimator as Cosmic Backdoor
8 min readA random encounter with a mathematical theorem kept me awake wondering: What if the LASSO estimator isn't just solving optimization problems, but revealing how the universe creates backdoors through impossibility?