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Poor Brian's Almanack: November 2026
Orange in the woods, a supermoon over the harbor, and a king tide for Thanksgiving.Read More →
Project Cybersyn
Seven swivel chairs, a slide carousel, and a plan to run Chile by telex.Read More →
Poor Brian's Almanack: October 2026
Scallops on Nantucket, bows in the woods, and the first real snow on Mount Washington.Read More →
The Rise of the No-Knowledge Worker
Finally, a job that requires absolutely nothing.Read More →
Poor Brian's Almanack: September 2026
Schooners in Gloucester, albies in the Canal, and the Harvest Moon.Read More →
Stop Anthropomorphizing Humans
Every argument against AI consciousness applies to you, too.Read More →
Nobody Listens to the Beatles
Sixty years of reverence and not one clean tracklist.Read More →
The Alphaverse
A double take on Everything Everywhere All at Once.Read More →
Who Has the Time?
A satirical defense of using AI for absolutely everything, aimed at the people hand-lettering their objections.Read More →
After Flow State
Flow wasn't a luxury — it was an adaptation to the work. The work changed.Read More →
Tap The Helmet, Ceddanne: A Love Letter To One Of The Worst Challenge Records In The American League
Ceddanne Rafaela knows where every ball in New England is going to land, except the one that just crossed the plate.Read More →
The Phantom Alternative
Faced with two bad options, we invent a third that isn't on the table. Why that phantom grips — and how to tell the one you should test from the one you can only carry.Read More →
A House Built for Robots
The time AI gives back, you spend managing the thing that gave it back.Read More →
Old Man Yells at Claude
Bernie Sanders wants the public to own half of every big AI company.Read More →
The Magic Circle Leaks
I asked an AI to build Snake in the time it once took to play it. The interesting part wasn't that making got cheap — it was that the fun had to arrive in costume.Read More →
All the World Is Staged
A satirical case for the death of authenticity — and the photograph of the plane that never left the ground.Read More →
Hand on the Dial
The fear about AI control mistakes the mechanism for the threat. The conditioning loop is value-neutral — the question is whose hand is on the dial.Read More →
A Nicer Treadmill
The hedonic-treadmill advice misreads its own metaphor. You can't step off — but you can build a better treadmill.Read More →
The K Stands for Kabbalah
Baseball is a Theosophical-Masonic ritual broadcast nightly from thirty open-air temples. Bring it up at brunch.Read More →
Nantucket Has Finally Reached 2003
The Muse just published its summer lineup. Gen X has formally taken the island.Read More →
The Sponsored Commons
The collective is real. So is the capital that made it possible. The contradiction is the shape of the moment.Read More →
The Layer Above the Model
Switching models every release resets the compounding. The layer above the model is what actually gets better with practice.Read More →
Red Sox's John Henry Fires Six Coaches On Time And Under Budget
On the surgical elegance of John Henry's coaching purge, the captain who got a desk instead of a pink slip, and the 17-1 send-off that doubled as severance.Read More →
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.Read More →
Deterministic Core, Expressive Edge
The new stack layers expressive AI on top of deterministic systems. Structured outputs are the bridge between them.Read More →
If Geese is a Psyop Plug me Back into the Matrix
A full-throated endorsement of the industry-plant theory of the best young rock band in America.Read More →
Siddhartha Gautama: The Ultimate Nepo Baby
A man with three palaces walks outside, sees an old person, and invents a religion.Read More →
Thinking Short and Long
Most of the important questions in life are calibration problems, not maximization problems.Read More →
The Session Is the Unit
Agent reliability is about the rhythm between sessions, not the prompt inside one.Read More →
Let Them Eat Slop
A satirical case for the infinite buffet of machine-generated content.Read More →
When the User Interface Stops Being the Product
AI makes interfaces cheap to generate, shifting software value toward capabilities and access.Read More →
Rethinking Code Ownership in the Age of AI
CODEOWNERS was designed for a world where code production was human-limited. That world is ending.Read More →
Gravity and the Shape of the Future
A metaphor for understanding how wealth, ideas, and attention accumulate, collide, and move the future.Read More →
Three Degrees of Information
A framework for an information diet to reduce distortion, anxiety, and false certainty.Read More →
How AI Is Reshaping Documentation
AI-first workflows are killing the old way we write and read documentationRead More →
How I Freedive for Lobster in Cape Ann
A detailed guide to freediving for lobster in the rocky waters of Cape Ann, Massachusetts.Read More →
The Art of Context Engineering
The trick isn’t in the words you write — it’s the context you shape together.Read More →
Bootstrapping New Projects with Cursor
How I used Cursor to clone my favorite blog setup — and how you can tooRead More →
Building a Modern Next.js App with Supabase Authentication
A comprehensive tutorial for setting up a Next.js app with Supabase authenticationRead More →
Building a Modern Blog with Next.js, TypeScript, and Nextra 4
A comprehensive tutorial for setting up a blog like this oneRead More →
Fractal Thinking with AI
A New Paradigm for Software Development (and Beyond)Read More →
Building Software with My AI Team
How I use ChatGPT, Cursor, and Warp like real teammates in my workflow.Read More →
Seasonal Living as a Personal Operating System
Redesigning daily life through Stoic wisdom, natural rhythms, and the lessons of New England.Read More →
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