Notebook
A living archive of thoughts.
Notes, essays, research seeds, and learning logs. Imperfect and evolving.
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He Asked for Water. His Son Threw Him in the Sea. This is an AI Problem.
What a Arabic proverb and a drowning man can teach us about how we state problems in AI. The right question is half the answer. The wrong goal is all the danger.
AIProblem FramingRequirementsSystems Thinking - Buildactive
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My personal website and public notebook. Built with Gatsby, React, and Markdown. A living knowledge system.
GatsbyReactMarkdownPersonal - Research Seedactive-question
AI Traceability: The Gap Between Answer and Trust
AI systems can produce confident answers with no trail of reasoning behind them. This is not just a UX problem. It is a fundamental problem in epistemics and system design.
AIMachine LearningTraceabilityTrustworthy AI - Noteevergreen
On Learning in Public
There is a version of learning in public that is about performance. This is not that. The point is to think more carefully, not to look impressive.
LearningWritingThinkingPersonal - Articlepublished
The Twitter Data Breach: What You Need to Know and How to Protect Yourself
200 million email addresses exposed. What the Twitter breach tells us about API security, data minimisation, and why email addresses are more dangerous than people think.
CybersecurityData BreachTwitterSecurity - Articlepublished
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner (Part 2)
Continuing through Gardner's intelligences: bodily-kinaesthetic, musical, spatial, intrapersonal, interpersonal. What the framework gets right and where it gets contested.
Frames of MindMultiple IntelligencesHoward GardnerIntelligence - Articlepublished
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner (Part 1)
Gardner's challenge to the IQ monoculture. A still-contested framework that asks whether linguistic-logical intelligence is the only kind worth measuring.
BrainEducationFrames of MindHoward Gardner - Articlepublished
CoinMarketCap Data Breach
3.1 million user emails compromised. A breakdown of what happened, what it means, and what you should do if your email was in the breach.
BlockchainCoinMarketCapCyber SecurityData Breach - Notepublished
The New One Minute Manager
Simple management principles wrapped in a fable. The ideas are obvious once stated, but that is the point.
Ken BlanchardLeadershipManagementSpencer Johnson - Essaypublished
What Start With Why Actually Changed in How I Think
Sinek's book is easy to dismiss as business self-help. But asking why before what changed how I approach problems in ways I did not expect.
BusinessLeadershipStart With WhyThinking - Notepublished
Start With Why: Simon Sinek
The Golden Circle is a genuinely useful mental model even if the book overstates its case. Worth reading for the core idea.
BusinessBook ReviewsSimon SinekStart With Why - Notepublished
Exploring the Strange Beauty of The Appointment by Herta Müller
Müller writes under surveillance, both literal and psychological. Her prose is fractured and precise in a way that matches the subject perfectly.
Book ReviewsNovelsHerta MullerLiterature - Notepublished
Diving into Philosophy: My Experience with Josiah Royce's The World and the Individual
Royce's idealist philosophy is unfashionable and demanding. But thinking through why he was wrong turns out to be useful.
The World and the IndividualExistenceJosiah RoycePhilosophy - Notepublished
What is Relativity? by François Vannucci: A Disappointing Exploration
A book that promises an accessible introduction to relativity and delivers a poor translation. A useful lesson in what happens when precision in language is missing.
EinsteinRelativity TheorySciencePhysics - Notepublished
A Review of Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich
Reich's passionate critique of mass psychology and self-inflicted oppression. A short, uncomfortable, and necessary book.
PhilosophyBook ReviewsWilhelm ReichPsychology - Notepublished
The Thirst for Freedom: A Review of Emmi Itäranta’s Memory of Water
A quiet, haunting novel set in a world where water is power. Itäranta builds a future that feels uncomfortably close.
Book ReviewsNovelsEmmi ItarantaScience Fiction - Notepublished
Understanding Modern Politics through Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception
Agamben argues that emergency powers are not a temporary suspension of the law but a permanent feature of modern governance. Dense and important.
State of ExceptionGiorgio AgambenPoliticsPhilosophy - Notepublished
A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Story of Love, Loss, and Survival in War-Torn Afghanistan
Hosseini's second novel is relentless and moving. A story of two women, decades of war, and the weight of staying alive.
Book ReviewsNovelsKhaled HosseiniAfghanistan