Essays

Slow Signs - Listening for Language with Positive Capability

It's taken me ten years to learn a little bit about slowing down. Now, I am just slow enough that I have the time and space to discuss this.

Animal's People - Embodying What You Read

A long essay on one of the most important novels ever written, exploring the limits of empathy, the failings of liberalism, and what it really means to read responsibly.

How To Language Large Language Models

What does a proper understanding of the limits and power of language imply about how we address LLMs?

Martyr of Hope - A Tribute to Bantu Steve Biko

My tribute to one of the true stalwarts of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, one of the greatest intellects to ever grace the African continent.

The Final Belt

A true story about a Two Row Wampum Council meeting in which the Black Wampum Belt was shown for the first time in this Great Year.

Viewing Time

By drawing a clear distinction between reality, and what we know about reality, this essay makes an argument for how to think about, describe and experience time differently.

Blue Devotion

This essay summarises the ideas behind, and the work done to achieve, The Blue Book. What is this digital artifact really inspired by?

Living: The Essay

There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints which, without art, we can't receive.

Finding Blue Infinity

How to build your own book using an infinite library and non-fungible tokens that are responsible for what gets displayed.

A Beautiful Question

A deep and wide walk, led by Frank Wilczek, through the wonderful world of scientific symmetries and Quantum Chromo-Dynamics.

What is Privacy

A wanderer's view on an issue critical to our age

Governing Gracefully

Governance mechanisms that distribute funds by virtue of how they work will trump those that attempt to distribute funds as an outcome of their work.

Language In The Ether

What does it mean to have an expressive programming language, which compiles down to binary and runs on a shared world computer?

All The Colourful People

An essay which discusses colourful and grey people, and how to stand beside one another in such a way that we can help the other turn to face the light.

Reading As Layered Ritual

An exposition of Stanley Kunitz's famous poem, 'The Layers' which goes into the art of deciphering and the many layers of self and text.