Droplets

On publishing every day for 30 days

Developing clarity of the critical path, and shedding ideas

Posted on December 2, 2025

A month ago, during a video call, a friend of mine mentioned the Inkheaven residency. He told me it’s a writing program happening in November where participants are under threat of publishing one blog post every day for 30 days, or getting sent home. [Read More]

Scaling what used not to scale

Using fluid intelligence to scale intellectual progress without systems.

Posted on December 1, 2025

(Part 2/2 of my introduction to Live Theory) In the first part, I described systematic thinking as the most successful coordination tool of our civilization. [Read More]

Jane

Posted on November 30, 2025

The door to the living room had been kept shut for as long as anyone could remember. In fact, the door had been covered with a large wardrobe that hid it almost completely. [Read More]

Every house has a chemistry lab

An appreciation of cooking

Posted on November 29, 2025

It is equipped with heat sources of various kinds, heat-resistant containers, a hob to evacuate toxic gas. [Read More]

My humble introduction to TPOT

A short journey among the most influential tweets from the post-rat community

Posted on November 28, 2025

Francisco and I just released bangers! A website gathering the most insightful tweets from the TPOT community. [Read More]

The effectiveness of systematic thinking

On making intellectual progress scalable

Posted on November 27, 2025

(Part 1/2 on my introduction to Live Theory.) This post is the first part of a two-part series introducing the vision for Live Theory, a design paradigm that leverages AI to build a decentralized, context-sensitive infrastructure. [Read More]

Wrap and extend

An introduction to membrane theory.

Posted on November 26, 2025

Pick an object, any object. It could be a rock, a human or a glove. There are two interesting universal questions to ask about this object. [Read More]

Sea snails in a cocaine vaccine

Nature is a reservoir of chemical Lego bricks for modern medicine

Posted on November 25, 2025

Researchers have been working on a vaccine to provoke an immune reaction to cocaine for decades. [Read More]

Artifacts I'd like to try.

Prototype ideas to create meaningful moments in the digital age.

Posted on November 24, 2025

Here is a list of digital (and physical!) artifacts to create connections between friends, increase conversation bandwidth, or simply enjoy pleasant aesthetic experiences. [Read More]

Living on a ball of hair

Seeing the paths behind skills.

Posted on November 23, 2025

You can look at the objects around you and imagine their trajectories, from their birth or their fabrication to where they are now. [Read More]

My experience running a 100k

On mental worlds, running with your future selves, and pain.

Posted on November 22, 2025

On the 3rd of August last year, I woke up early. I stood nervously with a hundred other runners in a hall in the city of Newmarket, near Cambridge in the UK. [Read More]

The travel

A short fiction.

Posted on November 21, 2025

'Look at him!' I'm hanging with my legs folded over the wooden crossbar that holds the boat's sail. [Read More]

The tree, the fly, the ant, the dog, the farmer and the businessman.

Available actions change the world you see.

Posted on November 20, 2025

From my fourth-floor window, I can see the branches of an oak tree moving in the wind. However, these movements are radically different from the movements of an animal. [Read More]

My relationships with emotions

Posted on November 19, 2025

Until around one year ago, I lived my life by cultivating three different points of view. They are not topics that were constantly on my mind, but rather three different frames I can apply to my lived experience. [Read More]

Tracking narrative strands in the Community Archive

On leveraging growth in AI agentic capabilities & an early progress update.

Posted on November 18, 2025

I talked yesterday about the vision of building exoskeletons for online communities. I'll share here a progress update on the work we've been doing towards building an epistemic exoskeleton over the past two days with @xiq. [Read More]

Exoskeletons for online communities

Posted on November 17, 2025

Large groups of people faces a trade-off between structure and authenticity. Organizations with thousands of people, like large companies, coordinate by defining tasks based on the needs of the structure and allocating people to fit those tasks. [Read More]

Conscious stars

A thought experiment to reconcile free will and physical determinism.

Posted on November 16, 2025

Imagine a universe where stars are conscious beings. Their insides are made of a dynamic network of plasma that supports advanced cognitive functions. [Read More]

My PIBBSS fellowship experience

Reflections on effectively receiving mentorship, iterating quickly on UI software projects, and fiction writing.

Posted on November 15, 2025

This summer, I took part in the PIBBSS fellowship, a 3-month program aimed at bringing interdisciplinary perspectives to the field of AI safety. [Read More]

The rise of framemakers

A collection of micro-visions on how AI can make online content come to life.

Posted on November 14, 2025

AI is changing the way we interact with online content. There are the gloomy waves of AI slop, the TikTokification of video content, the ad-maxing-prompt-injection-cyberwar, yes, but also the prospect of fulfilling the web's promise: making content come to life. [Read More]

The universe's point of view

Seeing your life as a sculpture.

Posted on November 13, 2025

This is the trace left by a larva of the Golden Pygmy moth. This species is a leaf miner; it lays its eggs on the surface of a leaf, and the larva lives trapped in a flatworld nibbling the soft tissues of its host from the inside. [Read More]

25 mantras

Posted on November 12, 2025

For the past few months, I have developed the habit of collecting mantras—short sentences that resonate with directions I want to steer toward. [Read More]

Thick practices for AI tools

Posted on November 11, 2025

What if we could build AI tools to help us navigate the very challenges that AI itself creates? [Read More]

The caterpillar, the butterfly and the tree

Posted on November 10, 2025

I was once walking and decided to take a break, lying in the grass. With my eyes closed, I was swimming in the warm light of a late summer afternoon when I overheard whispers coming from above me. [Read More]

Non-optimized beauty

Posted on November 9, 2025

Would the world look beautiful without eyes? Not in the sense of being blind. I mean to consider a world without eyes, where evolution never developed organs that perceive the world through sensing light. [Read More]

Why can planarians regrow their bodies?

Posted on November 8, 2025

I finally took the time to transfer an online game I created five years ago from an old personal website to this one. [Read More]

Making the world bigger

Posted on November 7, 2025

The world is everything you pay attention to. [Read More]

Our ancestors didn't know their faces

A reminder to keep our identity small

Posted on November 6, 2025

When you are born, nobody knows your face. And in particular, you don't know your face. [Read More]

Breaking Books

A tool to bring books to the social sphere

Posted on November 5, 2025

Diego Dorn and I designed a tool to turn a non-fiction book into a social space where knowledge is mobilized on the spot. [Read More]

Letter to a close friend

Posted on November 4, 2025

I am writing to say sorry. Like a childish king gifted with an empire he knows nothing about, blindly sending orders from his comfortable palace, I hurt you through my ignorance. [Read More]

Solving a problem with mindware

Posted on November 3, 2025

I am in bed, about to fall asleep and I have an idea. One of those ideas that shines a special light; it feels like a great idea. [Read More]

An appreciation for typography

A text is never naked.

Posted on August 10, 2025

You have to pick a font to write anything. Be it your handwriting, homemade holes in stencil cardboard, pixel art, or a digital font. [Read More]

On soft and hard: car wheels and rails

An uncertain exploration on why rails are infinite radius wheels.

Posted on July 11, 2025

Car wheels have tires, circular inflated bands of rubber where the vehicle comes into contact with its environment. Tires are flexible because roads are unpredictable. [Read More]

The Connection

A short story. What if you could understand strangers as well as your closest friends?

Posted on July 8, 2025

I lean down carefully to examine the fresh track in the soft sand of the clearing. Two thick crescents marked by two clefts. No doubt about it—a moose had passed this way, a few hours ago at most. [Read More]

Bird's eye view

An interactive representation to see large collection of text "from above".

Posted on December 17, 2024

How do you make sense of a 300-page book in 15 minutes? Or get insights from thousands of news articles without relying on recommendation algorithms? [Read More]

An alive blackboard

A short story exploring a visual mentoring relationship.

Posted on October 9, 2024

“Time for homework! 📚” - I read the notification on the top left of my field of vision. I close the simulation of the remotely controlled pirate ship I was crafting. I put down my haptic gloves on my bed, and turn off the 3D hologram projector. [Read More]