The Garden: Writing & Ideas
This is where I share ideas on the topic of AI, startups, design, coding, philosophy, and other interests.
Some ideas are recorded as quick voice notes, or quick unedited musings. Others I‘ve spent more time developing into sketches, prototypes or full-fledged essays. You can read more about the intention, design and implementation of this site here.
I prefer the term digital garden since it sounds warmer than wiki. I've organized ideas depending on how fully fleshed out they are:
We should build the capacity to scale our defenses before we urgently need to turn them up.
Can we govern potentially misaligned AI, build powerful systems differently, and preserve the collective ability to stop if neither proves sufficient?
A proposal to pause the combination of frontier AI, physical autonomy, resource acquisition, and self-replication before the loop closes.
As AI systems grow more capable, new faculties can appear in qualitative jumps. We do not yet understand what causes those shifts, or what forms of thought might emerge beyond the human repertoire.
As we enter a world of interacting AI agents, what can we learn from the mechanisms that have kept human societies, imperfectly and so far, from destroying themselves? Identity, reputation, repeated interactions, emergent norms, and the benefits of belonging to prosocial collectives may offer a path toward more stable outcomes.
Seeding a constellation of public-interest institutions for the AI transition.
The most useful agents will be event-driven: asleep by default, woken by changes in our organizations or the world. What they need is a boring, vendor-neutral wake standard.
Re-reading Weaving the Web and reflecting on what the founding vision of the web tells us about where the web is going, and building a web for AI
A conversation with AI about building a standardized credentials vault for portable Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor skills
How AI will increasingly mediate our conversations, connections, and collective experience
Exploring the mystical and poetic nature of computation, consciousness, and reality
Exploring the concept of self-improving software products and agents
The internet opens up a new scale of communication - how should we navigate these new challenges?