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everything i listen to, read, watch, and subscribe to. spotify stats, podcast rankings, book notes. gets updated regularly bc i'm always consuming something.

rebuilt my SF event aggregator from scratch. 449 sources, 23 categories, 4-pass dedup. now it actually works properly.

a technical deep dive. methodology, implementation, results. the stuff that doesn't fit in a tweet thread.

post scarcity isn't 'everyone gets a yacht.' it's just... people stop dying from problems we already know how to solve. we have a coordination problem, not a resource problem.

i made 20 AI models take the SAT. from openai to deepseek. spoiler: they all beat the average 17 year old. but none of them are getting into MIT.

i've been eating one meal a day since covid. here's every fast i tracked in 2025 — heatmaps, streaks, the whole deal. spoiler: i didn't die.

i gave 22 AI models the same philosophy survey that 1000 professional philosophers took. turns out GPT-4 is a moral realist and Claude is a compatibilist.

i was tired of not knowing what's happening in SF so i built a thing that scrapes 400+ sources. v1 was janky but it worked.

you can just do things. no one's stopping you. this is about that.

bought a dumbphone 6 months ago. went grayscale. deleted everything. this is what happened when i tried to touch grass for real.

the professional stuff. work, projects, education. the linkedin version of me.

my entire plant collection with care guides, watering schedules, and a graveyard section for the ones i killed. 30+ plants and counting.

the finale. pulling all the threads together into something resembling a coherent worldview. emphasis on 'resembling.'

part 3. second and third-order effects. this is where it gets weird.

the full history of getting machines to translate speech directly into other speech — no text middleman. it's harder than you'd think and the progress is wild.

part 2. going deeper into specific domains. what happens when AI gets really good at things we thought were uniquely human?

part 1 of a 4-part series on where everything is going. started as a blog post, turned into 125 pages. i might have a problem.

the way most ppl do startups is fundamentally flawed. step 1: decide ur gonna change the world. step 2: have a prophetic vision. step 3: lose all ur money. here's how to not do that.

pattern-matching historical fascism against current events. this was uncomfortable to research and even more uncomfortable to write.

tried to make my smartphone as dumb as possible without going full nokia. grayscale, no socials, minimal everything. here's what worked and what didn't.

70% of americans have oral herpes and nobody talks about it. so i ran the numbers on STI prevalence, probability, and risk. the data is... something.

quotes i keep coming back to. philosophy, tech, life. the ones that live rent-free in my head.

hello world but for a blog. had to start somewhere.