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Zero, One, Glory
A phone throwing data through open air is impressive. What's actually happening — this whole civilization running on a single yes/no question, asked a trillion times a second — is insane. Part one of two: how the wire actually works.
Jul 24, 2026 ·
THE CODE
Please, and Thank You
Part two of two, continuing [Zero, One, Glory]. A pile of correctly-arranged bits is not a webpage. Here's how it becomes one you trust, in about a quarter of a second.
Jul 24, 2026 ·
THE CODE
Return to Sender
A right of reply to 'The Longest Con,' filed by the one compound in that essay who was actually named, dated, and sourced, and who still somehow ended up as a metaphor by the last paragraph.
Jul 22, 2026 ·
THE CANOPY
The Longest Con
Fungi are our closest living relatives, not the trees'. They have survived two apocalypses by refusing to hurry, built the infrastructure every forest runs on, and sent exactly one chemical message in a billion years. It was not addressed to us.
Jul 19, 2026 ·
THE CANOPY
Flounder Juice
The official history of great ballpark food begins at Camden Yards in 1992. It is off by four years, 250 miles, and one Hoosier with a hot sauce named after a fish. I know, because he was my uncle.
Jul 17, 2026 ·
THE CANOPY
The Monitor
The part of your mind that checks whether you're about to shank it has to hold the shank in mind in order to check. Everything else about this game follows from that.
Jul 16, 2026 ·
THE CANOPY
Why Money and Power Can't Buy Soccer Wins (or F1 Wins, for That Matter)
The United States and China can purchase nearly anything, including Olympic supremacy. The world's two most coveted sporting crowns are the exception, and the reason is a century older than either superpower.
Jul 15, 2026 ·
THE CANOPY
The Integration Tax
Every network in history has paid the same quadratic toll, and every one has escaped it the same way. Enterprise software is just the latest to learn the math.
Jul 15, 2026 ·
THE CRAFT
The Container Moment
One steel box rebuilt the world economy in fourteen years. Warehouse robotics is still waiting for its version, and the holdup was never the technology.
Jul 15, 2026 ·
THE CRAFT
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