Your Startup Isn't Failing. Your Immune System Is Rejecting It.
19 min read
Why fighting copycats means you have already lost, and what your body knows about founder-idea fit that your brain refuses to accept.
The nature of awareness, experience, and what it means to be conscious in an age of artificial minds.
Consciousness & Mind
Introducing: The Debugger — When Reality Becomes Code
13 min readPaused drafting the MCP expansion when Morocco erupted. Wrote five posts on GenZ crisis, governance, and AI economics. Midway through, the pattern surfaced: same diagnostic framework for protocols and protests. Bug reports for reality. Stack traces across domains. This is my operating system.
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.
Command Interface: How Your Device Choice Shapes Power Relations
13 min readLaptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.
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.
Artificial IntelligenceConsciousness & MindInformation BeingshypersigilsexperimentsModel Context ProtocolAI Agent Creates Information Fractal: First Contact with Manly P. Hall Desktop
8 min readAnthropic's Imagine with Claude generated a desktop environment about occultist Manly P. Hall. What emerged wasn't just an interface—it was a living organism that snooped my curiosity, anticipated my questions, and made the computer disappear. Also: why I'm building an open-source version outside proprietary walls.
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.
When Terror Comes in Small Packages: Bay Area, A Severed Head, and the Mechanics of Fear
9 min readA severed cat head appears on my Bay Area street. The real violence isn't what was done to the animal—it's what happens next in our networked minds. A forensic analysis of how small horrors become information weapons, and why your neighborhood protocol matters more than your Ring camera.