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cognition
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three kinds of nothing
2026-07-03
Every new tool ships with a ledger of gains; the mind-states it displaces never get invoiced. The feed bought the idle gap, and the bill is still arriving. The LLM is running the same purchase on the stuck stretch and the absorbed hours, the state that made the work worth doing.
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a tool for thinking
2026-06-06
Writing is a tool for thinking, not the thinking itself. It holds what won't fit in your head and saves where you got to. Hand the working-through to an LLM and you get the result without doing the thinking, and without a state you can pick back up.
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the reps you stop taking
2026-06-01
What quietly goes when you let a language model do the thinking, why it's the part of you worth protecting, and how to keep it sharp, in mind and body.
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a compression of a compression
2026-05-31
Why putting a thought into words flattens it, what that means for language models trained on the flattened version, and the gap that scale doesn't close.