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Three axes for three ways of looking: at the world, at roles, and at myself.

🌍X-axis · Temporarily Living in the WorldObserving the world: experience → observation → abstraction → judgement.

Essay7 Nov 2026

How should I look at a model? Five questions

I've started organizing what I've learned, and models are the first topic. Math, law and machine learning mean different things by "model," so I use one set of five questions on all of them: purpose, trade-offs, assumptions, complexity, correction.

Essay24 Oct 2026

Sample essay: what a city teaches about systems

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