I designed a unique sculpture to celebrate our marriage, and it had me learning lots of new techniques on the fly. Continue reading
Love across the world (sculpture)
Patrick and Pari’s wedding
Pariyada and I got married at the Manhattan courthouse in January this year, but we just recently had our big wedding celebration with family and friends. Here I’ll share our relationship story which I wrote for our wedding website (with some photos added in) and the readings we chose for our ceremony. Continue reading
Vault Newsletter, June 2026: Old Notebooks, Lost Ornament, and Four Films
Patrick’s vault only started keeping history on June 14th, so this issue covers about two weeks. Over about a week he pushed a stack of old college notebooks through OCR — ten subjects, photographed page by page and fed to an AI agent — and the content is transcription, with no commentary layered on top. What the archive is for remains open, including to him. Elsewhere: an argument that twentieth-century architecture dropped ornament not because carving got expensive but because it got cheap, four films read for their theology, and progress on a sculpture that will be a custom ornament at his wedding. Continue reading
The continuous tense is disappearing from your life
AI tools are making more and more work trivially easy, which is bittersweet. People love labor under the right conditions: the flow state, the sense of getting better with each rep. As AI claims competence in domain after domain, that particular human pleasure is disappearing. Are we ready to just speak things into existence, like gods? Continue reading
The tech bro ethos, and the end of my job
AI is coming for tech jobs first, and most of us are still excited about it. The tech bro doesn’t love work, he loves seeing the job done efficiently. He doesn’t want to hang on to his job, he wants to finish it. Continue reading
Sam Hyde is comedy’s Jungian shadow
Sam Hyde is the Jungian shadow of contemporary comedy. I didn’t know about him for a long time, but when I found him it felt almost like deja vu. All popular comedians stand in dialogue with, not him specifically, but … Continue reading
Optimization problem
This is money, you use it to buy thingsOk I want to use it to buy this TVah…What?Well that’s okay, it’s just that most people use a plastic card for that.How does that work?Well the plastic card represents the digital … Continue reading
New Friend Photo Booth app
After my 30 days of AI experimentation, I’m better able to use the tools available to build small-but-complete software projects. Today’s project is a simple photo booth app that uses your device’s camera to create a vintage-style photo strip you … Continue reading
Commentary on SSC’s In the Balance
When I first read In the Balance on Slate Star Codex, there was something captivating about it, like there was a big point I was supposed to get, but my mind kept getting too tired to grasp it. Anyway I think I got something now. Continue reading
Doing a new thing with AI every day for 30 days
I did a new thing with AI tools every day for 30 days. I recorded these clips mostly for accountability, but there’s some cool stuff in here that I’d like to share. Chapters are timestamped so you can skip around. Continue reading
My fight, 2025
The website is for my personal projects, and this is… something like that. I’ve been training at Zombie Muay Thai in Manhattan for about two years, and in February this year I fought an exhibition Muay Thai match against a … Continue reading
Anywhere with you (digital image)
My wife and I have been on a number of trips together. Inspired by vintage screen-printed travel posters, I made a composition featuring some of the iconic locations we’ve ventured to. Continue reading
The math caught up to you
The math caught up to you. When you were in school you took a variety of subjects in rotating classes, covering 7 or 8 subjects in a day. You took math, and it was hard. It didn’t make you feel … Continue reading
The non-tribal tribes
This post is about tribalism in contemporary Western culture, and specifically it’s about the invisible assortment of people who have self-selected out of it. What the “Grey Tribe” gave up in tribal coordination, they gained in greater freedom to determine their own values and lives. The result is a fresher, more dynamic arena of human activity. I’ve spent a lot of time in some of these quiet cultures, and I want to tell you about them. Continue reading
The present perfect tense is ruining your life
There’s a world of difference between wanting to do something and wanting to have done something. What’s dangerous is when we conflate the two. It’s a form of deception (usually self-deception), and it sets us up for failure and frustration in our efforts. Continue reading
