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Recent Posts
- ‘Twas the Line Before Christmas’Twas the night before Christmas, and how cheerful the sight,As the grid fed the glow of each home’s twinkling lights.The meters spun softly, their telemetry flowed,In hopes of no surge in the holiday load.But the planners lay… Continue reading ‘Twas the Line Before Christmas
- From Seed to Silicon: The Metaphors We Think WithI was reminded of an interesting idea recently—though I can’t remember where or by whom (another great example of the intellectual sloppiness that writing in a blog affords me). The idea is this: we tend to perceive… Continue reading From Seed to Silicon: The Metaphors We Think With
- The Cognitive Effectiveness StackIn a previous post, I asked the question: “How do I not waste my mind?” To begin answering this question, I first abandoned the narrow performance metric of “intelligence” and took inspiration from Ian Banks’ Consider Phlebas for… Continue reading The Cognitive Effectiveness Stack
Blog Chains
A blog chain is a series of blog posts intentionally linked together, each building upon or exploring deeper into the ideas presented in previous posts.
Rather than isolated or standalone articles, a blog chain is structured as an iterative conversation or exploration, providing continuity and progressively unfolding insights.
I write them when I can’t fit my ideas in a 2000-2500 word essay. But I don’t always write them back-to-back. Often times they take a while to develop and I will mix in other topics in my release schedule.
Here is where you can see them in back-to-back sequence.
The Cognitive Effectiveness Stack
- Cognitive Effectiveness; Or How to Not Waste a Mind
- The Cognitive Effectiveness Stack
- From Seed to Silicon: The Metaphors We Think With
- The Mindplay of Cognitive Arbitrage (not released)
- Alignment Protocols: Thinking Effectively in an Intelligent World (not released)
The Techno-Wisdom Codec
- The Techno-Wisdom Codec Has a Bug In It
- Codec Debug Session 1: All Your Database Are Belong to Us
- Codec Debug Session 2: Tell Us What You Really Mean
- Codec Debug Session 3: Breakpoint
- Codec Debug Session 4: One Byte at a Time
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