P(doom)
Are any adults left in charge?
Self-care
Resisting Change
Sometimes there does not need to be a reason.
The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
Business should not just be about making money. “Jade Roller Guy has become my go-to example of something that went drastically, terribly wrong with how a whole generation of would-be entrepreneurs thought about work and money. A specific ideology –… Read More »The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
Stealing 10k from a locked phone
Why isn’t it more widely exploited?
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Safety
LLMs do not have conscience. “First, ML models are a giant pile of linear algebra. Unlike human brains, which are biologically predisposed to acquire prosocial behavior, there is nothing intrinsic in the mathematics or hardware that ensures models are nice.”… Read More »The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Safety
Hazardous States and Accidents
I will start using this more. At home and work. “One of my children loves playing around cliffs and rocks. Initially he was very keen on promising me that he wouldn’t fall down. I explained the difference between accidents and… Read More »Hazardous States and Accidents
Engineering Ethic and Honor
Here is a pledge I gave when graduating from my alma mater “We, the graduates of engineering studies at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, ‘pledge’ that we will practice our profession as engineers in accordance with the principles… Read More »Engineering Ethic and Honor
Fate, Structure, Mimesis
Do we have any say in history? “The self you experience as yourself—the deliberate, choosing, narrating self—is not the primary phenomenon. It is a secondary formation, a surface effect produced by deeper processes. Your desires, your fears, your loves, your… Read More »Fate, Structure, Mimesis
Moon Joy
“The most interesting thing about the Moon is us.”
The Technology of the Soul: Ignatian Formation and Its Sources
Usually we deceive ourselves. “We are systematically deceived — not primarily by external temptation but by our own affections, which dress themselves as reasons.” https://tantaman.com/2026-04-06-jesuit-formation.html