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Being instrumentalistic
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If an oracle can give us every correct answer, is there still a reason to understand anything? AI makes an old question about knowledge feel newly personal.
2026 · 08 · 31
5 min
philosophy
ai
knowledge
learning
reflection
Take a Step Back
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Flow gets all the press. But your brain has a second mode, and the hardest problems I've solved were never solved inside the tunnel — they were solved the moment I climbed out of it.
2026 · 07 · 31
6 min
focus
flow
problem-solving
ai
engineering
learning
philosophy
Writing — Why I Stopped, and Why I Started Again
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I stopped writing because I believed an idea had to be fully mine before I had the right to publish it. Two books, one borrowed word, and a simple bit of arithmetic later, I started again.
2026 · 07 · 27
7 min
writing
creativity
originality
learning
books
philosophy