Column Index
Columns
Essays in sets, each following one thread to its end
Lived-Philosophy
Reckoning with Reality
Seven audits of profit, action, technology, and choice
Seven essays on commercial judgment and personal choice: what profit can prove, how action produces evidence, where AI moves the bottleneck, and what makes a path truly costly. The series offers no prescribed direction; it asks each conclusion to survive contact with reality.
The Super Individual's Gear Stack
Your gear is arming your competitors too
A five-essay column. Almost every "super individual gear list for the AI era" answers the same question — how to move faster. But when every model release raises everyone's speed at once, speed stops being an advantage. This column re-sorts your gear with a colder test: does this layer's progress help only you, or all of your competitors at the same time? That test yields four layers — production, judgment, distribution, reputation — one essay each, plus a final answer to the last question: how to wire the four layers into one system that feeds itself.
AI 2026: First-Half Review, Second-Half Forecast
Five essays — from what actually happened, to what comes next
A five-part column of observation and forecast. I take the things that actually happened in AI Agent land in the first half of 2026 — the ceiling on information automation, the shift from "you prompt it" to "it prompts you", the cost collapse of open models, the trust engineering behind unattended agents, the split between red ocean and blue ocean — and use them to reason about what the second half most likely holds. No hype chasing; only the signals that change your next move.
From Information to Creation
In the AI era, I split my notes into four different things
An ongoing column: most people treat information, records, knowledge, and creation as the same thing, so their notes keep piling up while they themselves stay the same. This column splits them into four distinct stages — information handles capture and noise reduction, records are the highest-conversion semi-finished product, knowledge is reusable capability sediment, and creation recombines it for an audience — and walks through the whole pipeline stage by stage, using AI-era tools and real cases from a community of tens of thousands.
GEO · Generative Engine Optimization
When search stops giving links and starts giving answers
An ongoing column: when AI search engines answer directly instead of linking out, the visibility rules for content creators are rewritten. This column takes GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) apart — principles, measurement, and hands-on practice.
Agent Engineering
Five essays from context foundations to production systems
Five interlocking long-form essays: the foundations of context engineering, a panoramic map of agent engineering, a teardown of a framework-free app generator, the full architecture of a production job-hunting agent, and a philosophical inquiry into agent identity. Read together, they trace one complete path from principles to practice to reflection.
Ignite and Settle
Three essays on companionship, attachment, and getting close
Three interlocking long-form essays: the quality and time of companionship, avoidant attachment, anxious attachment. You can enter from any of the three. Read together, they form one map.