A weekly essay from a bucket of topics consisting of all things blockchain, artificial intelligence, extended reality, quantum computing, renewable energy, and regenerative practices.
👁️ A Closer Look
W23 — TD Bank had the largest compliance army in North America and still let 70,000 alerts rot for six years. It didn’t fail from laziness. It failed because of twenty years of buying the wrong thing. The fix, one boring 35-year-old primitive.
All the Data
W22 — The slogan is wrong on every axis it was built to carry. The lie is not lazy; it is load-bearing. Strip it back and you find the real commodity and the reason it stays hidden. The model keeps what fits and files the rest under noise. But the rest is not noise. The rest is where you live.
Philosophical
W21 - The catastrophe had red eyes and a server farm that says no. What you got was a Tuesday. The system isn't misaligned—it's exquisitely aligned. Every incentive points the same way: toward you being unnecessary. Not a bug. The spec.
Philosophical
W20 — A computer verified its first physics paper and found an error peer review missed. A mathematician quit his tenured position to argue that mathematics has been misdefined for 2,300 years. These are the same story.
Educate \ Learn
W19 — Misattribution isn't an injustice problem, it's an intelligence problem. Put the wrong name on a discovery and the field asks questions designed for the wrong person. The correction never arrives because no one knows it's missing.
Ethics \ Principles
W18 — Wrong beliefs don't survive because the evidence is hidden. They survive because they're embedded in economies, careers, and identities that resist correction. From MBTI's AI-powered metastasis to psychiatry's overdue reckoning, here's the machinery that keeps us confidently wrong.
Future of Work
W17 — The farm already has an heir: the system that owns the inputs. When time compresses, inheritance dissolves. We don't run simulations seeking truth, we seek permission for what's decided. This isn't about jobs, it's about the flattening of time itself. The record matters.
Philosophical
W16 — Everyone's asking what to do about AI. Wrong question. Everything worth saving rests on one capacity we're quietly trading for convenience. The question isn't what to protect—it's whether you're still doing the thinking.
ANI \ AGI \ ASI
W15 - The corpus didn't capture human knowledge. It captured what traveled. And what travels, across centuries of civilization, is weaponry, it's the fraction of human cognition evolved specifically to exploit other humans. We built the host condition before the parasite arrived.
A Story to Tell
W14 - A cattle monitoring platform, a Calgary winter, a dying mother, and the formula that keeps showing up across a thousand years of mathematics — whether anyone is looking for it or not. The constraint was never the obstacle. It was always the answer.
Technology
W13 - The sun fired a warning shot in 1859. We had 165 years. We wrote reports, introduced legislation, held hearings — and kept building a bigger antenna. The solution to the oldest infrastructure problem in the modern world exists. It just isn't where anyone thought to look.
A.I. (and Subsets)
W12 - We prize orchids — for rarity, for control, for perfect optimization — and we scrub away the mess. Reality isn’t a greenhouse; orchids perish outside. Physics guarantees disorder. Design for weeds: systems that gain strength from chaos. This is no metaphor: an actual physical law ensures it.