Half-Baked, on Purpose.
Fragments, quotes, provocations, and small experiments. Not essays — these are too short, too early, or just for fun.
Mirrors don't help you grow.
If your personal AI only ever says yes to you, it's not a symbiont. It's a mirror. And mirrors don't help you grow — they just confirm you.
Productivity advice in a costume.
Most 'productivity' advice is a coping mechanism dressed up as a methodology.
A second skin, not a helper.
What if every human had a small, private, sovereign language model that only spoke to them — trained only on their own writing, voice, and behavior? Not a helper. Not a product. A second skin.
The world has been rendered mute.
"The world used to be a sacred place, full of chatty and companionable objects […]. We now live in a world that has been rendered mute." — Meghan O'Gieblyn
BCIs will get boring before they get good.
First generation: magical. Second: underwhelming. Third: feels like clothing.
Augmentation is a verb.
Not a category of product. It's been done to humans since fire. The question was never whether, only by whom and for whom.
Advice to my past self.
The research question you're avoiding because it sounds naive is probably the best one.
World brotherhood.
Dünya Baradari literally means "world brotherhood." I see it as my mission to create connections within and between humans and the world.
Mind the signal.
Some pages don't want to be found. The interesting ones often don't.
What is the technology for?
Philosopher-builder: someone who asks what the technology is for before they can ship it.
Half of 'collaboration' is apology.
Half of what passes for 'human-AI collaboration' right now is just humans apologizing to agents for their own impatience.
Build for your grandchildren.
Build the tech you want your future grandchildren to inherit. Not the tech you want to demo next quarter.