River crossing (wk 9/2026)
Here and there; navigation, many games; slop, possums, agency, immaturity.
The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)
On not-knowing—what it is, how it affects us, and how to relate to it—and other stuff.
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Writing with machines (wk 3/2026)
Tacit knowledge, motivation, and negotiation; writing with machines; Smart Bricks, being kinded, and specs.
Multiples (wk 1/2026)
Judgment from the ground up; labour-intensive and industrial foods, prompting as teaching; maintenance and replacement; Boring Tiny Tools in India, Chinese peptides, shoveling snow.
Boring and uncomfortable (wk 52/2025)
Why Boring Tiny Tools are good; what to do when there's nothing to do; being uncomfortable; billionaire babies, moneymaking, choosing deviance.
Going online (wk 48/2025)
Online workshops; finding books in space with situated memory; headlessness, 3D-printed boats, AI energy usage, climate models, mendacity.
Free range (wk 47/2025)
Public value and public strategy; what I've been up to; electric anxiety; Rupertness in polyhedra, rewritable pads, tape clips, zip ties; trees, cats, dogs.
Reasoning scaffolds (wk 43/2025)
Infrastructure for human subjective reasoning; walking in a forest; dynamic moulds, San Francisco malls, Kryptos, television; coloured water.
Prototyping logics (wk 41/2025)
Prototypes and the value of theory; Socratic mirrors, reasoning scaffolds, and AI tools; in-country patterns; closures, modern instrumentals, natural ice, pretexts.
An AI critical thinking tool (wk 39/2025)
An AI tool for learning critical thinking while using AI tools; Tunisia and structured elicitation; various perspectives on how to use AI; developments in zippertech.
Open pollination (wk 37/2025)
A breakthrough in cases; taking the public sector seriously; the practical value of thinking about meaningmaking; dissolving vs. solving, quant knowability breaks down, materiality.