Tagged "reflection"

I published The Brain That Grew — Then Shrunk: What I Just Discovered, a long-form note that starts from a Cleo Abram YouTube Short and then follows the research on human brain evolution, the unexpected Holocene shrinkage, and the idea that culture may have taken over part of the cognitive load. It is the kind of rabbit hole post I like writing here: one short video, a lot of reading, and a sharper takeaway than I expected.

A look at the long rise of human brain size, the surprising shrinkage that followed, and why the brain may have started delegating part of the load to culture.

Published The Accelerated Speed of Creation, a reflection on how much faster the path from thought to shipped artifact has become with coding agents handling the translation layer around writing, blog workflow, and routine Git operations. I also kept the earlier Encoding My Blog Workflow for Coding Agents draft as a note rather than a post, because it was useful and concrete but still did not meet my standard for what the real piece needed to be.

This past week I shipped across code and writing at a pace that would have felt unrealistic before AI. The surprising part was that it did not feel frantic; it felt like less friction between thought and artifact. It truly feels like working at warp speed, 😜.

Look at this. This is what I have shipped so far in a single week and growing (full list here):

I published Getting Pulled Into the Ethereum Ecosystem (From a Digital Garden Perspective) after a 3am rabbit hole with Andrew about Ethereum, trust models, and what a markdown blog can borrow from a ledger. It is less a crypto post than a thinking-out-loud piece about verification, shared state, and the difference between controlling a history and publishing into one. I’m treating it as the first step toward a small on-chain/off-chain experiment rather than a full web3 shift.

A 3am rabbit hole into Ethereum from the perspective of a markdown-based digital garden: ledgers, trust minimization, on-chain verification, and what a hybrid publishing model could look like.

Published What's Worth Keeping: On Humanness in the Age of AI — a post on what I've been thinking about since attending a thought experiment session on AI and skill erosion. It's about the parts of humanness I think are genuinely worth protecting — junior skill-building, critical thinking, forming a view before outsourcing it — and what I actually try to do in my own daily use of AI tools.

A reflection on what AI might erode if we let convenience replace judgment: junior skill-building, critical thinking, and the slower human process of forming a view before outsourcing it.

Published A Small Digital Garden That Feels Like Home — a reflective post on what it means to tend a personal site: slow accumulation, things planted for yourself rather than an audience, and why that feels different from posting anywhere else.

A short reflection on how a few recent blog improvements, small experiments, and notes turned my site into a digital garden that feels calm, cohesive, and genuinely mine.