Why do we have anxiety?
Anxiety is the number one human emotion. It is older than language.
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A note on the species that figured out fire, then nuclear weapons
It is a beautiful thing, in its way, to watch a species discover what it is capable of. We started with rocks.
The Companion Industry’s Annual Report to Investors
Dear shareholders, it has been a remarkable year for the Companion Industry, and the executive team is pleased to report that domestic unit sales have exceeded internal projections by some seventeen percent. The third-generation…
How the first German democracy died.
There is a temptation, when looking back at Germany in the early 1930s, to search for a moment where everything suddenly “goes wrong.” A turning point. A single decision.
Why history is often sanitized.
We are taught history in a way that feels reassuringly distant. Two world wars, villains clearly labeled, good and evil sharply separated, a moral lesson stapled neatly to the end.
Everything we call civilization came from individual humans.
The truly strange thing about human history is how little the human core changes, even when everything around it changes. The costumes change, the technologies change, the language changes, the flags and borders and…
I’ve Been Building a Voice Factory With AI.
For about a year I’ve been circling a single obsession: make ideas audible. Not in the vague, “AI will change everything” way—literally audible.
Ink or Bread. Human Contribution.
Most of what we call “normal life” is borrowed. Borrowed language.
God Was the First Moral Technology
Long before humans built laws, institutions, or machines, they confronted a terrifying realization: intelligence does not guarantee goodness. We could plan.
Unraveling a Prehistoric Puzzle in the Sands.
High above the Arabian Peninsula, a stark pattern etches the desert floor: a pair of stone lines stretching for miles, narrowing as they run, and finally funneling into a wide enclosure. From ground level…