AI Writes Requirements for Free, and That's the Most Dangerous Part
One morning, and three things that shouldn’t exist One morning I got up, made coffee, opened my laptop, and found the agents I’d left running …
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I Ran Ten Agents Overnight, Woke Up to Ten PRs, and Then I Got Stuck
This is part two of “The Super Individual’s Gear Stack.” If you haven’t read the overview , start there - every judgment in this piece rests on the …
The Four-Layer AI Stack for Super Individuals: What Actually Compounds
The fifteenth tool list changed the question Over six months, I read roughly twenty or thirty “AI-era super individual” tool lists. Around the …
Designing devbox-doctor: A Safer Mac Toolchain Audit
I am building a developer-machine checkup skill called devbox-doctor. The idea sounds simple: inventory a Mac, identify tools that may no longer …
Agent Skill Design: What a Dangerous SKILL.md Taught Me
What makes an Agent Skill valuable is not a clever prompt, but a clean division of responsibility: deterministic work goes to code, judgment goes to …
Building an AI Knowledge Base: From Notes to Executable Workflows
After the Framework Stood Up, I Realized I Had No “Shared Workshop” The five-part Info-to-Creation series got the framework standing: information …
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The Fastest Numbers Are Often Furthest from the Outcome
This is the fifth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay asked what kind of action can produce evidence. This one examines the speed …
Action Does Not Automatically Lead to Truth
This is the fourth essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay examined how intelligent people use competence to escape. This one asks the …
The Escape Routes of Smart People: Applying Ability to the Wrong Problem
This is the third essay in Reckoning with Reality. The previous essay examined the limits of profit. This one turns to a more personal question: …
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, …
