Jul 2022

Periodicals

Reader's View: Is a college degree still worth the cost?

It's an expensive decision to get wrong.

1 minread in the Duluth News Tribune ↗

Jan 2023

Periodicals

January: Part 1 '23

Playboy, NFTs, and parking at the mall

7 minread on Substack ↗

Jan 2023

Periodicals

January: Part 2 '23

Spirituality, tradition, and "content" in the modern era

8 minread on Substack ↗

Feb 2023

PeriodicalsAI

February '23

AI chatbots, Helter Skelter, and high windows.

7 minread on Substack ↗

Mar 2023

PeriodicalsMarkets

March '23

Amazon's $40bn "advertising" business, thought experiments, and Roman traditionalism

6 minread on Substack ↗

Apr 2023

PeriodicalsAI

April '23

Intelligence leaks, mate switching, and the viability of Airbnb

7 minread on Substack ↗

May 2023

PeriodicalsAI

May '23

Disney's provincial beginnings, stone masonry nullification, and further iterations on "California"

7 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2023

PeriodicalsBlack Holes

June '23

Black holes, interpreting reality, and the Apple Vision Pro.

6 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2023

PeriodicalsBlack Holes

July '23

Greek models, the ethics of Meta, and inter-galactic travel

8 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2023

PeriodicalsAI

August '23

The occult, three age systems, and artificial intelligence

7 minread on Substack ↗

Sep 2023

PeriodicalsMarkets

September '23

The dark web, societal norms, and chasing comets

7 minread on Substack ↗

Oct 2023

PeriodicalsAI

October '23

Quantum computing, serial killers, and theoretical AI

7 minread on Substack ↗

Nov 2023

PeriodicalsAI

November '23

Human evolution in a digital world

4 minread on Substack ↗

Dec 2023

PeriodicalsBlack Holes

December '23

Morality, tidal gravity, and a career retrospective

5 minread on Substack ↗

Jan 2024

PeriodicalsJournal EntriesTravel

January '24

A European Love Letter

10 minread on Substack ↗

Feb 2024

PeriodicalsBlack Holes

February '24

Nightclubs, relativity, and werewolves

6 minread on Substack ↗

Mar 2024

Periodicals

March '24

Greek history, legacy thinking, and some self reflection

5 minread on Substack ↗

Apr 2024

PeriodicalsBlack Holes

April '24

Social media, gravitational collapse, and dating apps

6 minread on Substack ↗

May 2024

PeriodicalsJournal EntriesAI

May '24

LLMs, cinematography, and Hemingway

4 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2024

PeriodicalsJournal EntriesBlack Holes

August '24

Privilege, corporatism, and obscurity

7 minread on Substack ↗

Oct 2024

PeriodicalsAI

October '24

Late-stage capitalism, the AI bubble, and being present

5 minread on Substack ↗

Nov 2024

PeriodicalsJournal EntriesAI

November '24

Audrey Hepburn, brainstorming AI, and modern dating

5 minread on Substack ↗

Dec 2024

PeriodicalsBlack HolesAI

December '24

Social media, creativity, and inversing black holes

4 minread on Substack ↗

Jan 2025

PeriodicalsJournal EntriesAI

January '25

Superintelligence, cold approaching, and a crush

4 minread on Substack ↗

Jan 2025

AIMarkets

Titans and Transformers

An interesting research paper came out of Google DeepMind this week (and it’s making some waves in the AI space). First, Google has proposed a new AI…

2 minread on Substack ↗

Jan 2025

AIMarkets

DeepSeek

If anyone’s been following tech this week, they know my prediction from last week came true: But the real news is DeepSeek — a model developed by an…

2 minread on Substack ↗

Feb 2025

PeriodicalsMarketsAI

February ‘25

Startups, emotional intelligence, and the rise and fall of Rome

3 minread on Substack ↗

Mar 2025

TravelJournal Entries

South Africa

A travel journal

6 minread on Substack ↗

Apr 2025

PeriodicalsAIMarketsBlack Holes

April '25

Market movers, special relativity, and 35mm

2 minread on Substack ↗

May 2025

MarketsThought Experiments

Monopolistic Behavior in Modern Business

(by way of game theory)

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2025

PeriodicalsAITravel

June '25

Early adoption, unexpected beauty, and quitting Amazon

3 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2025

PeriodicalsAI

August '25

Thinking big (and going blind)

3 minread on Substack ↗

Sep 2025

Periodicals

September '25

Let's dance

3 minread on Substack ↗

Sep 2025

PeriodicalsJournal Entries

SEPT 25 — PT2

Upward.

1 minread on Substack ↗

Oct 2025

PeriodicalsMarkets

OCT 25

Banking, flight, and film exposure

2 minread on Substack ↗

Nov 2025

AIMarketsThought Experiments

The AI Bubble

Follow the money.

3 minread on Substack ↗

Dec 2025

PeriodicalsAIMarkets

DEC 25

Great authors, market cap, and living with my brother

5 minread on Substack ↗

Dec 2025

PeriodicalsJournal EntriesAI

DEC 25 — PT2

Train Dreams.

2 minread on Substack ↗

Jan 2026

Travel

Italia

La Spezia, Italy —…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jan 2026

TravelJournal Entries

NYC

Texting a buddy.

1 minread on Substack ↗

Feb 2026

Thought Experiments

Primitive Anthropology

The vast majority of early cave paintings were that of animals. Large herbivores — bison, aurochs , and horses. Or dangerous predators — lions,…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Feb 2026

Periodicals

FEB 26

Journal Entries.

1 minread on Substack ↗

Mar 2026

Periodicals

MAR 26

Hegel, Blood Meridian, and shots from space

1 minread on Substack ↗

Mar 2026

PeriodicalsJournal Entries

MAR 26 PT2

Top of Mind: Greek philosophy. The closest understanding we have to the developmental mind. Sourcing of western ideals — Socrates and Plato and…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Apr 2026

PeriodicalsAI

APR 26

Brain dump.

2 minread on Substack ↗

Apr 2026

Journal EntriesBlack Holes

Physical Media Journal

Cicero fish ponds. The idea that the most able statesman of a society move to the suburbs and build high walls. Spend their time perfecting fish…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Apr 2026

Journal Entries

Soulful

Being pre-occupied with prior emotion. Letting it project to those around me. Especially when I’m tired — or stressed. Long walks and blue skies the…

1 minread on Substack ↗

May 2026

AIThought Experiments

Working w/Claude Code

AI orchestration. Instead of writing a script (or a class) to do something, think of all your architecture as either 1) an AI agent or 2) a tool that…

1 minread on Substack ↗

May 2026

Thought Experiments

The Stoddard Temple is a threat to many things.

If it were allowed to exist, nobody would dare to look at himself in the mirror. And that is a cruel thing to do to men. Ask anything of men. Ask…

1 minread on Substack ↗

May 2026

AIThought Experiments

Thought Experiment

As AI becomes better than humans at certain things, it raises the potential of replacing that person’s job. Doesn’t have a body (yet) so mechanical…

1 minread on Substack ↗

May 2026

Thought Experiments

Publishing a newspaper.

Physically mailed. Or rather, a periodical. Op-Ed’s from my friends. Art and humor. Small business insights. Sector movements for the analytical…

1 minread on Substack ↗

May 2026

Journal Entries

Appreciative.

Of my family. Of my friends. Of the people in my life. Take a step back and realizing what you have. Of the myriad of influences that made me who I…

1 minread on Substack ↗

May 2026

AIMarketsThought Experiments

Opinions on the stock market

My biggest miss this past year was selling my Google stock 9 months ago. Diversified it into AI datacenter infrastructure. Companies like VRT & FIX…

1 minread on Substack ↗

May 2026

Journal Entries

Something Greek

Last night did deep stretching yoga and came back like I’d achieved new ranges of motion in my deep hips. Couldn’t fall asleep all night because of…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2026

Journal Entries

Last night there was a huge storm here in Minnesota and I woke up at 3am to this eery hum of voltage.

And a second later a massive crash of thunder. Then the power went out and the rain stopped and I was worried as f*ck that a tornado was gonna drop.…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2026

PeriodicalsJournal Entries

JUN 26

All heart.

2 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2026

Black HolesStudy Guides

STUDY GUIDE | Quantum Gravity

A star. Take one twenty times the Sun’s mass — and everything in this first stretch is layer one, as tested as physics gets. For millions of years…

8 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2026

AIThought Experiments

Rodent Inspections | ARCHIVE

This started as a project for my postgrad at Columbia — but turned out to be rather interesting. The Apriori algorithm , more commonly referred to as…

2 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2026

PeriodicalsJournal EntriesAI

FEB 26 | ARCHIVE

Just a vibe.

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2026

Astroid Trails.

gtrianta Write letters to your parents. Your friends. Past lovers. Filled heart. Dropped in…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2026

PeriodicalsJournal Entries

JUN 26 — PT2

It was not necessary to have been even a virtuous man: the wicked man, as well as the good man, became a god; but he retained in the second life all…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jun 2026

PeriodicalsBlack Holes

JUN 26 — PT3

How falling into a black hole is reminiscent of retained consciousness in the afterlife Black holes imply infinite gravity, a destruction of matter…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

TravelJournal Entries

Big Sky Journals — 1

June 30 Out in MT solo. A week ahead of the gang. Staying in a motel in downtown Bozeman. Breakfast from the co-op across the street. Sleeping in…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

TravelJournal Entries

Big Sky Journals — 2

07/04 Pulled off in a field north of Yellowstone. Sunbathed. Hydrated. Cigarette and Randy Travis. Take a shower and get ready for live music in Big…

2 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

TravelJournal Entries

Big Sky Journals — 3

07/07 Golfing in the AM. Peyton and Blake and Kenley 5 under on the front. My group 7 over. Chalk it up to the view. Beautiful distraction. Back to…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

PeriodicalsAIBlack Holes

JULY 26

Ideas and AI Prompts.

4 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

TravelJournal Entries

Big Sky Journals — 4

07/12 Out here solo. Peyton back to Fargo. Darren and Zane on a plane back to the cities. Drove around at dusk. Passed a wedding reception and pulled…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

PeriodicalsJournal EntriesTravel

JULY 26 — PT2

Art, for the masses

2 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

Study Guides

STUDY GUIDE | Newton's Brachistochrone Proof

In 1696, Bernoulli (a famous mathematician in his day) made a public call to action — asking for the mathematical proof to a given conjecture .…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

AI

AI, and the Artistic Age

In a world fast-becoming more automated, where the repetitive redundancies are being outsourced to an AI more capable, it feels like the logical next…

2 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

Fiction

Dream — Comet

The days that followed were those of solitude. Over the creosote lands he fled, finding no populous save the wolves that wandered that self same…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

Fiction

Dream — Oratory

Before Texas became a state, it was colonized by Spanish conquistadors who were primarily interested in fame and riches. But being Catholic during…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Jul 2026

Journal EntriesThought Experiments

Stream-of-Consciousness

- Could these steps lead to such a high world? - Do the rich reach existentialism before the proletariat? - Taste the forbidden fruit and forever…

5 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

Markets

The United States Small Business Review

Growth YoY Eg. — “sector sentiment” Professional Services is the government’s catch-all for people who sell expertise rather than product. Lawyers,…

3 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

PeriodicalsJournal Entries

AUG 26

Early bird gets the worm.

3 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

AIThought Experiments

Getting an AI to do a given thing is really pretty simple.

You need guidance written as a concise set of instructions with clear goals and rules. To help the agent orient itself to its given problem-space so…

2 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

Fiction

Short Stories

One It was an old logging trail. Likely used in the 1800s as a means of accessing the timber that resided at the base of the mountain. The man had…

3 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

Fiction

Dream — A Higher Power

He had left the States years ago, come to make home on the southern coast of France. He'd found an old stonemasons mill and asked the farmer with the…

3 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

Prose

Collected Poems

## AFTER DARK ## the tug of the Coriolis from the turnings of the world the calling of whippoorwills from a darkened treeline and a full moon from…

1 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

Prose

My Writing Process

Text Conversation

1 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

Reading

READING | Selected Poems and Fragments

Friedrich Hölderlin

1 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

Reading

READING | Cities of the Plain

Cormac McCarthy

2 minread on Substack ↗

Aug 2026

Reading

READING | Go Down Moses

William Faulkner

1 minread on Substack ↗