Essays, reflections, and occasional rants from Seth Goldstein.https://sethgoldstein.com/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/bits-agents-atoms/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/bits-agents-atoms/What happens when a synthetic mind sustains artistic intent across atoms, bodies, and time.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/memory-engines-what-2-373-session-notes-reveal-about-creative-process/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/memory-engines-what-2-373-session-notes-reveal-about-creative-process/Memory Engines What 2,373 session notes taught me about how I think. The Experiment I built a tool to analyze every markdown file I'd created while building with Claude Code over six months. 2,373 documents. Session notes, specs, half-finished prototypes, 3am brainstorms. This isn't retrospective. It's cognitive archaeology—using AI to understand how I've been using AI. The Core Insight One function keeps appearing across 30 years of work: "I design systems that capture liviTue, 13 Jan 2026 08:55:26 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/the-word-i-said-12-484-times-and-the-one-i-did-not/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/the-word-i-said-12-484-times-and-the-one-i-did-not/My friend Eli Schein asked me: "Can you share a word for last year and one for this year?" I decided to let my data answer. I ran my conversations through a word frequency analysis — Limitless recordings, Granola meeting notes, ChatGPT threads, everything from 2025. The winner: AGENT. 12,484 times. More than "artist" (10,759), more than "token" (6,725), more than any project name. It makes sense. I spent the year building infrastructure for autonomous AI artists at Eden. Launching Solienne.Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:16:26 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/coming-soon/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/coming-soon/This is seth, a brand new site by seth goldstein that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:20:48 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/startup-sayings-to-live-by/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/startup-sayings-to-live-by/Nine aphorisms that help illuminate the early stage journeySat, 09 Jan 2021 22:33:32 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/joy-inside-my-tears/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/joy-inside-my-tears/On Showing UpFri, 03 Jan 2020 04:18:54 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/a-tragic-loss/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/a-tragic-loss/RIP Kwentyn Wiggins 2002–2019Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:32:17 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/fiduciary-data-banking-a-market-based-alternative-to-surveillance-capitalism/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/fiduciary-data-banking-a-market-based-alternative-to-surveillance-capitalism/Part I: Describing the ProblemTue, 02 Apr 2019 18:32:39 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/a-is-for-auschwitz/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/a-is-for-auschwitz/What would Nana Kass have said had I told her that an American Nazi youth drove his car into a crowd of people protesting a White…Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:06:58 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/mercenaries-1-missionaries-0/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/mercenaries-1-missionaries-0/“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock”Fri, 28 Jul 2017 02:03:35 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/whose-browsing-history/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/whose-browsing-history/Unfortunately, we seem to have lost the ability to prevent our ISPs from selling our Internet browsing history to others without our…Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:50:05 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/trumps-ultimate-art-of-the-deal-will-be-his-resignation/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/trumps-ultimate-art-of-the-deal-will-be-his-resignation/Everybody is afraid of jail. Thats the point: to keep us from doing bad things to each other.Sat, 25 Mar 2017 23:45:12 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/e-rubble-and-the-new-patriotism/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/e-rubble-and-the-new-patriotism/Our best hope at regaining confidence in our identity as pioneering, gracious and powerful Americans rests on proving (accepting?) that the…Thu, 09 Mar 2017 23:06:05 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/on-patriots-and-patriotism/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/on-patriots-and-patriotism/Searching for American values between the hash marks.Mon, 13 Feb 2017 05:47:50 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/truth-is-a-grind/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/truth-is-a-grind/The Role of the Entrepreneur in the age of Trump.Tue, 03 Jan 2017 09:57:49 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/are-we-losing-world-war-iii-before-we-even-realize-it-started/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/are-we-losing-world-war-iii-before-we-even-realize-it-started/Putin’s cyber attack on Hillary’s servers was the beginning of World War III.Mon, 19 Dec 2016 10:59:58 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/if-you-work-in-technology-please-read-and-consider-signing-this-petition/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/if-you-work-in-technology-please-read-and-consider-signing-this-petition/-sethTue, 13 Dec 2016 17:50:22 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/original-skin/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/original-skin/We are watching it unfold in slow motion. Like the stock market starting to fall in the Spring of 2000. When prices started to go down so…Sat, 03 Dec 2016 10:44:05 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/he-is-a-change-agent/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/he-is-a-change-agent/always a little bit based on the circumstanceSat, 26 Nov 2016 08:31:31 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/howard-you-are-a-mensch-among-menschs/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/howard-you-are-a-mensch-among-menschs/You represent everything that an entrepreneur needs in a investor and board member: wisdom, patience, empathy and conviction.Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:05:00 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/heildonald/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/heildonald/dear donald,Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:25:44 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/thank-you-donald-trump/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/thank-you-donald-trump/For getting us post-boomer / pre-millennial cohort of writers and artists and assorted liberal intellectuals to go through such profound…Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:16:25 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/the-loner-myth-of-vr/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/the-loner-myth-of-vr/We have come to take for granted the narrative that our obsession with our iPhones and our fascination for VR is going to turn us into a…Fri, 13 May 2016 07:25:32 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/personalogistics-now-and-then/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/personalogistics-now-and-then/Facebook: August 2015:Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:56:15 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/theories-of-engagement/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/theories-of-engagement/With the dawn of augmented experiences and virtual reality upon us, we need a richer framework for measuring and managing engagement; one…Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:18:06 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/music/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/music/four notes on music as a development platformTue, 17 Jun 2014 08:55:43 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/on-electronic-music/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/on-electronic-music/turntable, crossfader and the rise of the mashupMon, 09 Jun 2014 17:13:28 GMThttps://sethgoldstein.com/writing/startupstories/https://sethgoldstein.com/writing/startupstories/Lessons learned from starting companies. Entrepreneurship is creating products to solve problems; and then recruiting people that can turn those products into sustainable businesses. Here are some helpful tips I haved learned along the way.Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:43:06 GMT