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Writing with Roam

How I use Roam Research for writing essays

Aug 5 •

July 2025

Work-life Balance?

We are given one life, which is insultingly short. Then, the best we can hope for, if we can achieve work-life balance, is to live only half of it, and…

Jul 14 •

June 2025

Trusticion Is All You Need

The current AI might not be the one we wished we had, but that is the path-dependent adjacent-possible that we do have. To make the best of it, we need…

Jun 10 •

May 2025

Leader, Platform, Protocol

Manual intersection control, traffic lights and roundabouts can be seen as exemplars of the three main coordination modes: leader, platform, and…

May 28 •

April 2025

The Medium is the Agent

One Friday in March, as usual in the mornings, I was drinking my coffee in bed and reading my morning paper.

Apr 12 •

March 2025

Requisite Inefficiency

Viability Needs Strategic Waste

Mar 28 •

AI Enables Fourth-order Observations

And they are very similar to second-order observations

Mar 1 •

February 2025

Beyond Decentralization

Decentralization movements design their protocols in direct correspondence to and as a manifestation of their values. That openness has the benefits of…

Feb 9 •

December 2024

When in Doubt, Zoom out

When in doubt about explaining and justifying something involving living beings, try zooming out.

Dec 3, 2024 •

November 2024

Conversations with Luc Hoebeke (series)

This series contains the transcripts of a few conversations I had with Luc Hoebeke in the summer of 2024.

Nov 25, 2024 •

Graph Pruning (Part 2)

Serendipity and the Art of Graph Maintenance

Nov 14, 2024 •

October 2024

Serendipity and the Art of Graph Maintenance

Oct 26, 2024 •

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