What I am figuring out, written down.

More Light

In 1865 a young economist noticed something strange: making coal-burning more efficient made Britain burn far more coal, not less. That paradox is usually quoted as a warning. Read it forward into the age of cheap intelligence and it becomes, I think, the most hopeful thing you can say about what comes next.

The Oldest Game

The most ancient thing humans made that you can still sit down and do today isn't a tool or a text — it's a game. A cheerful romp from a 4,600-year-old board dug out of the ground to the day a machine played a move no human would dare, and what our endless love of play says about us.

Seeing Early, Thinking Sideways

A step-by-step, science-backed field manual for the two skills every founder secretly needs: spotting the ripe idea before the crowd, and reaching the one nobody else can see. With three thousand years of examples — from Vedic-era India to the modern feed — and a recipe you can actually run.