Demons Hate Fresh Air
The magic isn’t in the walk itself—it’s in how it shifts your focus so old memories, half-formed ideas, and forgotten details start talking to each other.
Scott Loftesness
Lifelong Learning
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Tsunami
The trucks are what I remember. Not the houses, not yet — the trucks. This was 2012, Atherton, a Tuesday probably, and I was driving through on some errand that doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is that the street had rearranged itself. Contractors’ pickups lined both shoulders, nose to tail, so many of them that […]
Remembering San Francisco’s KKSF
Before streaming, before the algorithm chose for you, a San Francisco radio station chose for you instead in such a delightful way.
It’s the Harness, Stupid!
As intelligence gets cheaper and more interchangeable, the economic prize may be migrating somewhere else entirely — to whoever controls the harness around the model, not whoever trained it.
The Arithmetic of the Sold-Out Warehouse
In the spring of 2026, Nvidia reported a quarter in which it sold $81.6 billion worth of chips, wrote it up at a gross margin of nearly 75 percent, and casually mentioned that cloud GPUs were sold out. Jensen Huang called it the largest infrastructure expansion in human history, and for once a CEO’s hyperbole […]
The Manufacture of Emergency
The appetite for manufactured stakes — built over decades in fraud detection, flying, and trading — doesn’t retire when the career does.
The Diffusion of Ordinary Work
The race that matters may not be the sprint toward the next frontier model — it may be the slower, unglamorous work of teaching ordinary engineers to put the technology to work.
The Depth of the Dimes
The lifeguard came out with a canvas bag, and that was the signal. Saturday morning, Kettering, Ohio, the municipal pool not yet warmed by the day, and forty kids arranging themselves along the edge like something had been rehearsed, though nobody had rehearsed it. We knew the shape of the thing without being told. He […]
Inversion
SpaceX’s plan flips the script—rooftops become cell sites, and customers pay SpaceX instead of landlords, cutting costs big time.
The Heron at Sharon Park
Two herons—one in the water, one in the light—seemed equally real, sharing a moment that felt like punctuation from the pond.