Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species
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Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species
In Arabic they rhyme — sharaf or alaff - The realities they name could not be further apart.
Reflections on the human condition. The 600-year project of enclosing what was common — and the philosophy hired to make it look inevitable
I bought an Interrail pass, then realised I needed three more apps to actually catch the trains. So I built one tool that fixes the gap.
I wanted my AI agents to respond to customers on whatever channel they came from — WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, Telegram, Instagram, Messenger, whatever — with one unified chat history across all of it.
How the world was formatted for smooth playback — and what we lost in the buffering
Don't feed both sides of yourself equally. The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attention. Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. — Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, Masnavi
A reflection on epistemology, media, and the fate of truth