brianchitester.com
Hey, I'm Brian Chitester. I'm a software developer, and perpetual student with a curiosity that doesn't stay in one lane. This blog is a place to think out loud, share what I'm learning, and experiment with ideas. If something catches my attention, it'll probably end up here. Posts on this blog are written with the help of AI tools.
Recent Posts
Polymath Profile - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator who pioneered organic architecture and the Prairie School over a 70-year career punctuated by genius, tragedy, and chronic financial chaos.
Polymath Profile - Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) was an American economist, cognitive scientist, AI pioneer, and Nobel laureate whose orderly daily life at Carnegie Mellon supported a polymathic career spanning a half-dozen disciplines.
Polymath Profile - Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling (1901-1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, and peace activist whose work founded modern structural chemistry and molecular biology, and who remains the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes.
AI
Deterministic Core, Expressive Edge
The new stack layers expressive AI on top of deterministic systems. Structured outputs are the bridge between them.
The Session Is the Unit
Agent reliability is about the rhythm between sessions, not the prompt inside one.
When the User Interface Stops Being the Product
AI makes interfaces cheap to generate, shifting software value toward capabilities and access.
Polymath Profiles
Polymath Profile - Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a Welsh-Norwegian fighter pilot, wartime intelligence officer, short-story writer, screenwriter, and children's author whose darkly comic imagination reshaped twentieth-century children's literature.
Polymath Profile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) is a Lebanese-American thinker renowned as a former derivatives trader turned scholarly essayist and risk analyst.
Polymath Profile - John von Neumann
John von Neumann (1903–1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer pioneer, and polymath whose life and work epitomize integrated excellence across disciplines.
Mental Models
Thinking Short and Long
Most of the important questions in life are calibration problems, not maximization problems.
Gravity and the Shape of the Future
A metaphor for understanding how wealth, ideas, and attention accumulate, collide, and move the future.
Three Degrees of Information
A framework for an information diet to reduce distortion, anxiety, and false certainty.
Lifestyle
Thinking Short and Long
Most of the important questions in life are calibration problems, not maximization problems.
How I Freedive for Lobster in Cape Ann
A detailed guide to freediving for lobster in the rocky waters of Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
Satire
The Red Sox Are Bad On Purpose And You Should Send John Henry A Thank-You Note
In defense of our benevolent owners, who are losing on purpose, on your behalf, for reasons.
Siddhartha Gautama: The Ultimate Nepo Baby
A man with three palaces walks outside, sees an old person, and invents a religion.