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Agent Fleet Economics in 2026: Testing Low-Cost APIs and Open-Weight Options
How many agents can one person afford to keep running? The wrong way to answer is to count agents. An “agent” might classify one paragraph, search …
When the AI Agent Starts Prompting You, What Has Actually Changed
A counterintuitive signal: it starts prompting you Start with a question. Suppose one day you open your workspace and the agent isn’t sitting there …
AI News Pipelines: Automation Limits and Human Judgment
Suppose you ask an AI system to track one field - papers, releases, benchmarks, first-party changelogs, and the conversations around them. How far …
From Chatbot to Agent to Skill: Turning Judgment into a System
A Year Later, Why Does AI Still Feel Like Extra Work? AI now writes copy, translates documents, summarizes meetings, and inspects spreadsheets. Yet …
Give AI Tasks, Not Just Direction: Define Done First
After Three Hours, What Is Left on the Table? I have had evenings that began with a modest intention: settle the angle of an essay. Soon I was …
Growth & Life
Growth, reflection, and lived experience
What Does Profit Actually Prove?
This is the second essay in Reckoning with Reality. The introduction began with a dinner-table argument. This essay asks only one question: what …
What Should I Do Next? A Debate About Money, Action, and Ideals
This is the introduction to Reckoning with Reality, a seven-part collection of audits on profit, action, technology, and choice. A few days ago, …
You Think You're the Player - But "Player" Is Also a Role: Rereading the Samādhi of Play
This piece is me going back over my own books. Two years ago I wrote down a sentence I’d counted among the things I had figured out. Recently, …
What Remains When You Take It All Apart: On No-Self, Suffering, and "You Could Say It Either Way"
The seed of this piece was a conversation that ran for several rounds - starting from small talk about the weather and sliding, almost by accident, …
Friction Is Growth: When AI Removes All Resistance for You, Deliberately Keep Some
A Signal That Sent a Chill Down My Spine Let me start with a line from the retrospective of someone who uses AI heavily every day. Reading it gave …
2026 June Thought Notes: The Pushing-Away Comes Before the Reason for Pushing Away
Prologue: A slack surface, and high density underneath In June I came back from Laos to Shenzhen. If you only look at the state, this was a slack …