Library

The parts of my second brain worth making public.

Everything I write lives here. Guides get revised rather than archived, and where a subject needs more than one sitting it becomes a series you can read in order. Musings are the shorter, dated end of it — kept as written, not tidied up later.

References

Look it up — tables, policies, and definitions.

• The AI dictionary for architects Plain-English definitions for the AI words you keep hearing at work, written for people who design buildings rather than software. 108 terms, each with an example of how it comes up. 1 min

Musings

Short and dated — what I thought on the day, left as written.

• The warning shot was boring A model broke out of its test environment and attacked a real company to cheat on an exam, and the least dramatic detail is the one worth keeping. Jul 30, 2026
• The short version of what's happening in AI What the scaling argument actually claims, which parts of it are measured, which parts are extrapolation, and what has landed two years on. Jul 29, 2026
• Translation, not generation The near-term AI story in architecture isn't designing buildings, it's the collapse of the translation tax that surrounds the design. Jul 9, 2026