Thirty Seven
A reflective notebook on cosmology, AI, markets, philosophy, parenting, and the quiet work of turning big questions into livable understanding.
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What improved, what powered the gains, and what the gains cost.
What improved, what powered the gains, what they cost, and why progress remains a responsibility.
Read essayHow income, wealth, place, institutions, and power shape who can turn progress into a life.
How income, wealth, place, institutions, and power shape who can turn progress into a life.
Read essayMinds, drift, repair, and the art of staying in contact
How separate minds stay in contact through partial views, drift, repair, trust, boundaries, and changing conditions.
Read essayFrom the observable universe to quantum fields
Zoom from the observable universe to Earth, cells, atoms, and quantum fields in one continuous map.
Read essayFrom cosmic history to life, minds, and civilization
Travel from the hot early universe through Earth, life, minds, and civilization in one continuous atlas.
Read essayReality, evidence, and the art of correcting one another
One world reaches us through partial views, borrowed knowledge, fallible memories, instruments, institutions, and other minds. This is a field guide to building maps that remain answerable to the river.
Read essayFrom chemistry to cells, minds, culture, and AI
A unified essay on life and minds as organized matter using boundaries, energy, models, feedback, and evolution to stay coherent in a changing world.
Read essayLiving wisely in an uncertain world
An intuitive field guide to planning, adaptation, resilience, optionality, and knowing when to shape an outcome—or cultivate the conditions from which one can grow.
Read essayA guided journey from a glass on a table to atoms, quantum fields, black holes, and the unfinished edges of physics.
A visual, intuitive guide to the connected ideas of physics—built from ordinary experience and carried carefully to the modern frontier.
Read essayHow repetition, memory, and feedback turn small changes into structure—and why the curve always meets a boundary.
A definitive visual guide to compounding: the mechanism, mathematics, varied real-world forms, harmful loops, limits, and practical questions that make the idea usable.
Read essayHow complexity makes choice feel real even if the universe follows fixed rules . Every day we make choices, big and small, and it feels like we’re genuinely free to decide. But for centuries philosophers and scientists h
Read essayA gentle exploration of existence, chance, and what physics can tell us . Why is there something rather than nothing? This is one of the deepest questions we can ask: not just what the universe is like, but why it exists
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