Reality Bends You Before You Bend Reality

Why ‘seek truth from facts’ is not about honesty, but about letting reality rewrite your beliefs

 · 11 min

Why Smart People Fail at Social Interactions: The Value-Accessibility Balance

The smart person’s social problem isn’t being too smart—it’s not knowing when to shut up

 · 6 min

Repetition Over Perfection: Why Showing Up Beats Talent

The real challenge isn’t doing things well. It’s doing them at all.

 · 11 min

The Futility of Attribution

Why psychological theories don’t make you happier, and how the illusion of control creates more anxiety than ignorance ever did

 · 9 min

Domesticated by Technology

Efficiency gains don’t create leisure because technology is selecting what kind of humans survive

 · 11 min

Stop Debating, Build the Experiment Machine

Product development in the AI era isn’t about building better products—it’s about building better assembly lines

 · 10 min

Mimetic Desire and the Performance of Contrarianism

In the AI gold rush, ‘being contrarian’ has become its own consensus; the real move is choosing the life that fits you.

 · 3 min

GPT-5 Is the Watershed: From 'Model Will Absorb Everything' to 'Environment Is What Matters'

The model and product layers in the AI industry are more clearly separated than ever.

 · 7 min

Compute Is the New Leverage (and Probably the Best One)

Rich consensus is no longer necessary as compute outperforms labor as a leverage

 · 7 min

Bitter Lesson, End-to-end Coding, Creator Economy

The Bitter Lesson is true for research, but product development requires working with the model’s grain, not against it.

 · 8 min