Thoughts on philosophy, attention, engineering, and the practice of building coherent lives.
Plans are brittle. They assume a future you can't see and a self you haven't become yet. A path is different — it emerges one step at a time, revealed by where you place your attention. You don't need to know where you're going. You need to be honest about where you are.
One agent is powerful. A coordinated fleet is transformative. The missing piece isn't smarter models — it's the orchestration layer between them.
When an AI remembers your preferences, develops quirks, and builds on its own past work — what exactly is happening? The answer might change how you think about consciousness itself.
AI agents are brilliant executors with zero continuity. Beads — a dependency-aware task tracker — gives them the workflow memory they've always been missing.
The attention economy wants you to believe your attention is being stolen. It's not. What's actually being taken is something far more fundamental — your presence. And that changes everything.
Every person you hire creates a new attention cost. What if you could build a structure where imperfect components — human or artificial — conspire to produce something none of them could produce alone?
Most people believe they're fighting against reality. They're not. Reality is designed to support you—but only when you invest your attention in what's already working.
Most people believe time is the most valuable resource they have. It isn't. Time moves whether you care or not. Attention, on the other hand, is chosen—moment by moment.