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Short notes from the observation deck.
Essays and field notes on technology, design, culture, systems, and the hidden mechanisms that shape what gets built and who gets access.
Jul 15, 2026
Who Gets to Afford Beauty?
Automation is forcing us to decide whether beauty is a shared human good or a luxury whose legitimacy depends on expensive human labor.
Jul 15, 2026Proof Loops Are the New Agent UI
As agents take on longer jobs, trust moves out of the chat window and into the tests, traces, previews, telemetry, and claim boundaries that make their work inspectable.
Jul 8, 2026The Archive Is the Interface
Agentic RAG works better when the archive is a navigable filesystem, not only a hidden vector index.