The AI desk
All 2 →Papers, field guides, and the signal under the hype
Field guide
How to actually keep up with AI research
arXiv ships hundreds of papers a day. You cannot read them all, and skimming everything is the trap. Here's a system that works — plus the sources worth your time.
Paper summaryAttention Is All You Need, explained
Self-attention, multi-head, positional encoding, the encoder-decoder stack — the 2017 Transformer paper, walked through one diagram at a time.
The Technology desk
All 3 →Essays on tools, attention, and how software actually shapes a day
Essays
Curation is the new search
When everything is published, finding is the product. A short argument for taste as infrastructure.
BuildingWhy the fox lives in Telegram
We tried an app. We tried email. Here’s why a chat thread won.
EssaysAgainst the infinite scroll
Feeds optimize for time spent. Your reading should optimize for time saved. These goals cannot be friends.
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