notes

Short essays, written to find out what I think.

On first principles, neuroscience, agents, and the case for range. Most of these are drafts. That is the point.

First principles is a debugging tool, not a philosophy

Everyone quotes it. Almost nobody uses it at 2am when the retrieval pipeline returns garbage.

The brain has been running a resource-constrained agent for a few hundred thousand years. Some of its tricks port directly.

Football, neuroscience, LangGraph, writing, swimming. The advice says pick one. Here is why I think the advice is slightly wrong.