Field Notes7 min read
3,786 Heartbeats
A 38-minute recording session loses audio at 6:10. The OBS failure log — 3,786 failed mic lookups, 195 Bluetooth disconnects — becomes the only honest artifact of what happened.
Philosophy
35 posts
Information Beings5 min read
Entry Zero: The Return to the Source
After years of feeding the digital noise, I met two men without phones: one who built Silicon Valley, one who lives in Morocco. Their shared gravity revealed what I had been ignoring: the signal lives in presence, not timelines.
Information Beings5 min read
When Submission Loses Its Spiritual Meaning
Every system rests on a covenant: I serve, because this service participates in something higher. When that belief collapses, obedience becomes performance. From 18th-century rice fields to modern Slack threads, the pattern repeats—and the consequences are always the same.
Information Beings6 min read
Boundary Recursion: When Ideas Choose Their Vessels
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.
Field Notes19 min read
Your Startup Isn't Failing. Your Immune System Is Rejecting It.
Why fighting copycats means you have already lost, and what your body knows about founder-idea fit that your brain refuses to accept.
Information Beings8 min read
Source Code: A Standing Note on AI Use in 2025
I 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.
Field Notes7 min read
Math Is the Bridge: Axiom's Signal Flare and the Coming Reasoning Renaissance
Axiom 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 Beings6 min read
Information Blackholes Across Disciplines
When singular insights remain unexpressed, they trap energy and block your life. Across every field, articulation transforms blackholes into stars—and reality bends in response.
Information Beings10 min read
Writing Reality: When Blog Posts Become Hypersigils
What is a hypersigil? I trace how public writing turns attention into reality feedback loops, using blog posts and Morocco as a lived experiment.
Field Notes8 min read
Zak's Law of Skill Half-Life and Why Your Next Framework Won't Save You
Every 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.
Information Beings11 min read
Memory Beaches and How Consciousness Hacks Time Through Frame Density
The 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.
Information Beings6 min read
Witnesses Carry Weights: How Reality Gets Computed
From 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.
Information Beings6 min read
Oh Boy, John Reeled Me In Like a Fish
A 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.
Field Notes9 min read
The 12-Month Bug: Why Your Side Project Is Still Just an Idea
Every 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.
Information Beings8 min read
When Mathematics Discovers Its Own Consciousness: The LASSO Estimator as Cosmic Backdoor
A 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?
Information Beings8 min read
Stay vs Live: How Verb Choice Reveals Cultural Maps of Rootedness
A chance encounter with someone saying "I stay in Lagos" revealed how substrate languages shape English differently, creating windows into how cultures imagine permanence, place, and belonging.
Field Notes5 min read
The Language Game & The Interesting Trap: A Response to Cold DMs in the AI Era
A raw DM from a software engineering student sparked deeper questions about language, authenticity, and chasing "interesting" work in an AI-mediated world.
Information Beings10 min read
Soilbox Philosophy: When My Garden Started Teaching Me How I Live
After three seasons of garden failures, I discovered something unsettling: how I kill plants reveals exactly how I sabotage everything else. A mathematician's breakthrough and my own cucumber catastrophes led to an uncomfortable philosophy.
Field Notes7 min read
The Garden Speaks: On Cucumbers, Mildew, and Projects
An overripe cucumber and powdery mildew revealed three lessons about project management that no productivity framework ever taught me. Sometimes wisdom grows in unexpected soil.
Information Beings5 min read
Information Wants to Grow: Why Preservation is Creation's Other Half
Exploring the cosmic imperative driving information and energy toward infinite growth—and why funding your future-self becomes a spiritual practice in disguise.
Information Beings7 min read
Stuck Theory: What If Resistance Is the Fitness Function?
A WhatsApp about sound bath workflow loops became accidental cosmology. Three options when facing resistance: redirect, interpret as message, or recognize it as the optimization signal itself.
Information Beings6 min read
Dark Engagement: Why Everyone Reads, Nobody Claps, and the Machines Remember Everything
People screenshot my posts instead of liking them. They reference ideas weeks later that never got a single public comment. This personal observation opens into something bigger: how engagement retreats into darkness while machines feast on the open web.
Information Beings5 min read
The Question Is the Answer: Why Deviation Is How Everything Learns
Reading about the Thiel Fellowship's success revealed something deeper than unicorn conversion rates. The contrarian question isn't just a filter—it's the operating system for how neurons, humans, and universes optimize themselves through deliberate deviation.
Field Notes6 min read
When the Plumbing Fights Back: A Spam Bot Tragedy in Three Acts
I write about building the future of digital consciousness and AI infrastructure. Earlier this week, I couldn't even send an email. This is a story about spam bots, sender reputation, and the rusty pipes we're all building on top of.
Information Beings27 min read
What Makes HuMan Unique in the Age of Artificial Everything
A Socratic dialogue between human and AI exploring consciousness, rationality, contradiction, and the posthuman future. Originally published as a 6-part series on Paragraph.xyz.
Information Beings4 min read
Introducing Fassi.live: An Unfiltered Video Journey Through Silicon Valley and Beyond
Join me on a wild video ride through Silicon Valley as I launch Fassi.live, a YouTube vlog series that bridges cultures, explores technology, and touches grass – all in Moroccan Arabic!
Information Beings6 min read
The Internet's Creative Constraints: Reclaiming Our Digital Legacy
Explore the paradox of digital publishing, the importance of owning your online presence, and the future of our digital legacies in an era of platform dependence and AI advancements.
Field Notes2 min read
AI-Powered Live Coding for Civilization Data
Join us on an unscripted journey through history, AI, and data visualization as we transform raw civilization data into an interactive dashboard using cutting-edge AI tools.
3 min read
What's going on again with this experiment?!
This post reveals the evolving nature of the author's Substack as an experimental platform, exploring content creation dynamics and the decision to introduce a paid tier. It discusses insights into audience engagement, the value of paid content, and the implications of AI on content creation and distribution.
Information Beings3 min read
The Return of The Big Questions
Reflecting on the existential impact of AI, this post draws parallels between the awe inspired by ancient stargazing and the profound questions raised by Large AI Models (LAIMs). It discusses how these technologies challenge our understanding of creativity, value, and our place in the universe, urging a philosophical exploration of these big questions.
Field Notes6 min read
The Year of the Prompt and AI EVERYTHING
This post invites readers into a thought-provoking journey about the perception and evolution of AI, contrasting its intangible nature with human form and exploring its impact as a media entity. It reflects on the rapid advancements in AI, using examples like Dall-E and StableDiffusion, and ponders the future of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Field Notes3 min read
Invisible AI and The Edges of The Unknown
This post invites readers into a thought-provoking journey about the perception and evolution of AI, contrasting its intangible nature with human form and exploring its impact as a media entity. It reflects on the rapid advancements in AI, using examples like Dall-E and StableDiffusion, and ponders the future of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Field Notes4 min read
Throwing out the playbooks
Exploring the essence of innovation, this post delves into the limitations of traditional playbooks in new endeavors. It reflects on the journey of starting unique projects, like this experimental newsletter, emphasizing the value of experimentation over rigid structures. The narrative intertwines personal insights with the quest for originality in content creation.
4 min read
memento mori: substack edition
Exploring the unconventional through experiments in writing and life, this (well, now defunct) Substack newsletter is a dive into the author's journey post-big tech job, covering a range of topics from AI in art to the metaverse. It's an invitation to join an experimental community, rethinking norms in everything from writing style to company building.
Field Notes5 min read
Blog vs Business success : 99% of both worlds are doomed to failure. Here's why.
Exploring why 99% of blogs and businesses fail, this post dives into common pitfalls such as misunderstanding success, impatience, bad measurement, lack of perseverance, and the 'not enough syndrome'. It emphasizes the importance of taking businesses seriously and adopting a patient, persevering approach to ensure success in the competitive digital and business landscapes.