Collected essays & field notes

Writing

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Object Oriented Ego

Think about the difference between object-oriented and functional programming. One bundles data with behavior, the other treats everything as transformations. One maintains state, the other stays stateless. Your ego is o…...

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Yoneda Epistemology

This insight has a name in mathematics: the Yoneda lemma. It states that objects are completely determined by their relationships to everything else. No hidden essence, no inner nature - just patterns of connection. You …...

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Differentiation of the Mind

I was debugging a recursive function last week, watching how each call transformed the input, when something clicked. The way my mind was observing thoughts felt exactly like taking derivatives—examining how consciousnes…...

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