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The Concept Garden: Ideas You Can Handle
In an age when answers are free, what's scarce isn't knowing but understanding — and understanding was never read, it's handled. I built a Concept Garden where every idea is an object you can play with by hand.
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The Concept Garden
Ideas you can play with, by hand — Bayesian humility, compounding, first principles, antifragility. Each paired with a classical lens. Free, and growing.
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Bayesian Humility: An Ancient Virtue, Now in Formula Form
Bayes' theorem isn't a modern invention of rationality. It's the formalization of an ancient virtue — holding beliefs in proportion to evidence and changing them when wrong. The hard part was never the arithmetic; it's being willing to update against your own ego.
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Alignment as Cultivation: AI Safety Is a 2,000-Year-Old Problem
AI alignment is treated as a brand-new engineering puzzle. But getting a powerful intelligence to genuinely share our values is something humans have done for millennia — raising children, teaching students, restraining rulers. Confucius named its hardest part 2,500 years ago.
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When the Machine Takes the Craft
AI takes the skill, not the Way. But the real danger is buried underneath: mastery was always grown out of years of skill — and if AI removes the path through skill, the ladder to mastery may snap halfway up.
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Building a Brand When Content Is Free
AI drove the marginal cost of content to zero. In that world, the scarce things — truth, judgment, and persistence — become a brand's most valuable assets. What changes, what doesn't, and the methodology that follows.
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How I Turn Reading Into Something That Compounds
From Readwise capture to three-level notes, a concept network, the so-what question, and a to-do list — the full pipeline that turns 'I read it' into 'it stayed with me.'
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