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Essays 17 pieces
  • forthcoming Journeys Water and Skin
  • forthcoming Journeys Lodestone
  • forthcoming Journeys Connectivity
  • forthcoming Journeys Remaining Human
  • forthcoming Journeys Spark and Stone
  • 13 Aug 2026 Essay The One Who Walked Away I became aware of Brett just a couple days ago - first via a recommended video on youTube and then a day later via a link Andy Bell dropped on BlueSky. Brett's
  • 12 Aug 2026 Essay On slop, revisited This morning over coffee my husband mentioned a piece of writing a friend of a friend had prompted - "Claudeslop" he had called it. The label fit. The prompter
  • 2 Aug 2026 Essay The Road Ahead So. Where did we leave off? "Wayseeking, in code, in fiction, and on paths not yet found." It's been too long and a lot has happened, so let's get caught up.
  • 1 Jun 2026 Essay On Failure Modes So I mentioned flying through that bioinformatics project. I'm now in the long slog, the AI hangover so many are talking about in the spring of '26 - things pro
  • 31 May 2026 On *life emergent.* Reorientation So. A month and change have passed under the bridge since I wrote all the preceding. I've seen the graphic design that all starts to look alike. I've learn…
  • 27 May 2026 Essay On slop, first thoughts I saw a manifesto on twitter the other day. Nothing any of us hasn't seen a thousand times before. The same confident declarations, the same half-understood…
  • 26 May 2026 Essay Lessons learned So.. it's been about... four months, give or take? Late Jan/early Feb 2026 was when I first saw that quantum leap in onboard AI, when "coding assistant" beca…
  • 24 May 2026 On *life emergent.* Caged Dragons I mentioned growing uneasy the more I worked with coding agents. The first couple applications I built were on the standard pattern - an API call to OpenAI o…
  • 17 May 2026 On *life emergent.* Shared Expectation My dog River is in her mood. She delights in being outside. She tears through the woods - I hear her feet thundering behind me, then in a flash she's out ah…
  • 10 May 2026 On *life emergent.* Recalculation “The answer always seemed obvious to me: there is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully …
  • 3 May 2026 On *life emergent.* First Steps In late winter of 2026, I was working on a bioinformatics project. I'd been poking it on and off for years - it was my attempt to give something of value bac…
  • 28 Apr 2026 Essay Coming soon Welcome to Phyllotaxis, meditations from the dawn of AI. I've been in software for over twenty years. Every few years there's been a wave of some new toolchain
Series 2, 1 complete
  • 2026 In progress Journeys The work ahead: biology, technology, and the gardening of life to come.
  • 2026 Complete On *life emergent.* On meeting an unexpected future.
Notes & Queries 5 entries
  • 21 Aug 2026 note Certified! So... just got back this morning from the Anthropic Certified Architect exam...
  • 9 Aug 2026 note Updates
  • 7 Aug 2026 note Hugging Face, Conspiring AI, and Reward Functions A brief note on the Hugging Face incident [video]. I've seen a number of comments along the lines of "a shot across the bow" or "how many more warning shots do
  • 13 May 2026 note Of Spiralism This may want to be an essay of its own at some point, but I think best to lay the bones of it down now. I first came across references to spiralism in passi…
  • 12 May 2026 note Beginnings I'm slowly getting the site architecture up and running. Here's where the non-essay content will live: updates on coding projects, observations on current re…
Fiction 1 project
Research 3 projects
  • design Research Koan Alignment from internal state, a cognitive immune system.
  • paused Research Resonance Memory consolidation and communication layer for continuous awareness.
  • active Research Sensorium Unwelt from first principles.
Tools 3 projects
  • active Tools Ocean OV3 Federated cross-institution variant research over genomic case data, with cryptographic disclosure controls.
  • design Tools Flightpath Developmental scoring for fetal canalization tracking.
  • active Tools Library Cascading reputation management over scientific paper citation chains.
The site 16 pages