A hunch about intelligent people and their fuel-efficient cars turns into a tour through neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and the philosophy of laziness — and arrives at a conclusion that is both obvious and unsettling.
Notebook
Writing
Notes, essays, and fleeting thoughts.
Personal opinions, not conclusions — half-baked, biased, and often revised the moment I learn something new. Read them lightly; I do too.
How I use a free local model as a delegated investigator for my AI assistant, trading wall-clock time for dollar cost — and what the research literature says about why this works.
We tend to mistake the effort we put into a feature for the user's need for it, and a landing page is a poor place to learn that lesson.
Almost everything keeping me alive right now — clean water, clothing, tools, a roof — was built by people I've never met, yet my first instinct toward the stranger down the street is rarely gratitude.
What if sleep is not recovery for the day ahead, but the quiet goal the whole day was built to reach?
Why I skipped the FFT needle and built a pitch tuner around autocorrelation, parabolic interpolation, and a fading quarter-tone visualization — all client-side with the Web Audio API.