Bits, Agents, Atoms
What happens when a synthetic mind sustains artistic intent across atoms, bodies, and time.
Writing
Essays, reflections, and occasional rants — ledger entries, written out longhand. Also: What an Agent Wants, a ledger from Paris. RSS.
Memory Engines
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 livi
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.
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Startup Sayings to Live By
Nine aphorisms that help illuminate the early stage journey
Joy Inside My Tears
On Showing Up
A Tragic Loss
RIP Kwentyn Wiggins 2002–2019
Fiduciary Data Banking: A Market-Based Alternative to Surveillance Capitalism
Part I: Describing the Problem
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…
Mercenaries 1, Missionaries 0
“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock”
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…
Trump’s 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.
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…
On Patriots and Patriotism
Searching for American values between the hash marks.
Truth is a grind.
The Role of the Entrepreneur in the age of Trump.
Are we losing WWIII before we even realize it started?
Putin’s cyber attack on Hillary’s servers was the beginning of World War III.
if you work in technology, please read and consider signing this petition.
-seth
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…
He is a change agent.
always a little bit based on the circumstance
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.
#heildonald
dear donald,
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…
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…
Personalogistics, now and then.
Facebook: August 2015:
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…
/music
four notes on music as a development platform
On (electronic) music
turntable, crossfader and the rise of the mashup
#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.