book
How Can Odysseus Go Home?
Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home. Nolan’s film suggests the harder journey is becoming Odysseus again, long after war, memory, guilt, and time have made the old life impossible.
English
culture
The Reservation That Makes the Crowd
Reservations are supposed to manage crowds. They may also manufacture scarcity, turn intention into commitment, and teach us to want the very thing they make harder to get.
artificial intelligence
The Commons Is Not A Pre-training Subsidy
AI companies have treated the mathematical record as training material, benchmark, and marketing asset. The Leiden Declaration asks a harder question: what happens when systems extract from a public order of knowledge without accepting its standards of attribution, verification, and responsibility?
English
Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro: A Product That Expects the Unreasonably Persistent
I accidentally made the China-market model work in the United States. This says more about my habits than Xiaomi’s design.
English
The Snake That Ate Itself
The market saw a 5 percent bruise. Apple saw a chance to move the price list. The AI companies wrote the alibi. The memory suppliers stamped it. Cook collected it in retail, with the expression of a man who had no better choice.
book
The Fine Print of Matrimony
Marriage was never merely a romance plot. Once women could own, earn, inherit, borrow, and leave, the old bargain lost its terror.
artificial intelligence
It's Never About Tech
The room was ready. One side had briefings, water, name placards. The other side had one chair. Dario walked in alone, thinking he could correct their technical understanding.
money
The Option Musk Never Had to Ask For
These pieces were drafted before June 12. The IPO happened. Cursor closed at $60 billion. The analysis below did not need updating. That's the problem.
artificial intelligence
SpaceX IPO (SPCX): You're Already In
If you hold QQQ, you might end up owning SPCX. You do not get a vote. Here is what to do about it. What Every Retail Investor Needs to Know Before June 12, 2026
artificial intelligence
SpaceX IPO Valuation: Am I Missing Something?
From $18.7 billion to $3.4 trillion in 15 years. That is 41.3% CAGR. For fifteen consecutive years. No company in history has done it. Maybe Alexander the Great, if he remembered to incorporate. I must be missing something. Maybe you can tell me
artificial intelligence
One Post-Train to Rule Them All. Not Quite.
I gave Gemini a URL it never read, a bait it never caught, and a paper about its own failure. It responded to all three with enthusiasm. This is the live recording.
artificial intelligence
SpaceX's S1 Is Out
SpaceX's S-1 is public. The valuation is high. The audit is gone. The disclosure window just got longer. The party has begun. Read the footnotes.