PHILOSOPHY
Agentic AI Was Invented in Melbourne
The agentic AI loop wasn't born in 2024. It was shipped from a Melbourne lab in 1991 — the BDI architecture — inspired by a Stanford philosopher's …
Systems, Incentives, and Carparks
A Malmö carpark, a Melbourne blackout, and the cheerful realisation that systems — not luck or geography — quietly decide what does and doesn't get …
Every Schema Is a Worldview
SUMO tried to encode all of reality into first-order logic. Its directory listing is a philosophical argument most AI engineers have never …
Most Software Issues Aren't Software
The real bottleneck in software development is not knowledge — it is processing. Ambiguity, cognitive load, and feedback latency are the upstream …
The Smell of the City
Your default environment shapes your baseline. Living near nature and visiting the city beats the reverse — your normal state should be the one that …
Mate, Take a Break: You're Not a Robot
Productivity culture destroys the spontaneous, unstructured time where creativity and connection actually happen. Become more human, not more …
Ambiguity as a Vital Sign
Traditional observability counts individual leaves. In a living system, ambiguity is the vital sign — it reveals where the system is still becoming.
Just Enough
Sweden's concept of lagom — just the right amount — reveals how collective sufficiency creates societies where empathy becomes natural, not expensive.
Defecting Toward Noise
Deep focus and extractable attention are fundamentally opposed objectives. The incentive structures and game theory behind why everyone defects toward …
Complexity Is a Feature: A Developer's Realisation
Complexity often isn't a bug — it's a feature that benefits interpreters, gatekeepers, and incumbents. A developer's journey from automation idealist …
The Ruby Diaspora: How Rubyists Shaped Modern Programming
How Ruby's community created Node.js, Elixir, Express.js, Flask, Laravel, and other technologies that define modern development.
The Quantum Turing Test
When the wavefunction collapses because an AI observed it, consciousness has crossed the silicon threshold.
Prompt Engineering Yourself: Mental Reframing for Anxiety and Growth
Transform anxiety through mental prompt engineering. Learn to reframe perspective, release guilt, and become the architect of your experience.
There Is a God Now: An Old AI Anecdote That Aged Like Fine Wine
An old computer science anecdote about AI and divinity from the mid-2000s that seems remarkably prescient in today's interconnected AI-driven world.
The Universe Starts with U: A Nature-Based Spirituality
Exploring a nature-based spirituality grounded in physics, quantum consciousness, and the profound mystery of conscious existence in a participatory …
The Uncomfortable Truth About Sounding Wise
Discover why true wisdom means resisting the urge to rationalize troubling behaviour with wise-sounding explanations that make everyone feel …