All Essays

Long-form thinking

Limits are not obstacles—they are design rules Information vs meaning: why data isn't understanding Relations create intelligence: graphs, embeddings, dependencies Change as computation: state, transitions, dynamics Patterns as compression: why learning is "finding structure" The philosophy of Big-O: humility, tradeoffs, scalability Debugging as epistemology: how we know what we know Noise vs signal: entropy intuition for engineers The discipline of naming: how structure starts in language