The Dangerous Green When energy returns after a depleted season, not everything that grows back is nourishing. The desert greens teach us that recovery demands discernment.
Build Three, Pick One When generation is nearly free, planning is no longer cheaper than building. The smart move: write the tests, build three implementations, and let measurement replace speculation.
The Machine That Forgot to Feel Darwin's mind became a machine for grinding facts — and the capacity for beauty went silent. What you don't practice, you lose.
The Performance Test A democracy can pass the ultimate accountability test and still lose the legitimacy race — because the test has changed.
The Dangerous Green When energy returns after a depleted season, not everything that grows back is nourishing. The desert greens teach us that recovery demands discernment.
The Poet Who Built the Cage An AI safety researcher quits to study poetry. The exit isn't burnout — it's diagnosis: the mode of knowing that built the safeguards cannot reach the thing they're meant to protect.