The Cost of Preserving Old Wheels
There’s a pattern I keep running into across the tech stack — from Windows to SharePoint to ConnectWise — and it’s finally time to name…
Read more →Lab Notebook
This is my engineering lab notebook in public form.
Every project starts with a question, drifts through experiments, and eventually settles into something stable—or at least instructive. I write about what I’m building, what I’m learning, and the unexpected behaviors that show up along the way.
If you enjoy following the drift from idea to implementation, you’re in the right place.
Debugging the Self: A Framework for Identifying and Correcting Emotional Drift
Abstract Emotional drift is introduced as a systems-level phenomenon in which external pressure, cognitive overload, or metabolic depletion distort the mind’s internal signal. Drawing on…
Read more →Theoretical Fault Lines: Augmentation, Not Delegation
Most people talk about LLMs as if they’re outsourcing labor. They treat the model like a junior employee: “write this,” “summarize that,” “do this task.”…
Read more →There Are No Churches Inside Google
How a 2020 College Paper Became a Lens for Understanding Human Trust This idea didn’t begin as a philosophy. It began as homework. In 2020,…
Read more →Update: The Data Was There the Whole Time
There’s a particular kind of psychological erosion that happens when a system behaves inconsistently. Not when it fails loudly — loud failures are merciful. It’s…
Read more →Theoretical Fault Lines: On Precision, Care, and the Quiet Drift Toward Automation
Let me walk you through a conversation I had recently — one that started with CyberKnife, of all things, and ended somewhere much deeper. If…
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