What we read so the salons can hear better.

Braiding Sweetgrass

"All flourishing is mutual."

Indigenous botany braided with Western science. The world as a gift held in relationship, not a resource extracted from one.

Flash of the Spirit

"Iwà l'ewà — character is beauty."

The source code for the lineage. Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande, and Cross River philosophies travel the Atlantic and reshape what we now call cool.

The Diamond Age

"The book itself is the protagonist."

A young girl's interactive primer reshapes her in a post-nano economy. The dream of cultural infrastructure that teaches you how to think.

In the Air

"Good ideas are not so much rare as they are situated."

Why ideas appear simultaneously to people who never met. Multiple discovery is a feature of cultural systems, not a coincidence.

Tool Shaped Objects

"The object is not broken, it is performing its function. Its function is to feel like a tool."

Things that perform the feeling of productivity without producing anything. The AI boom's most dangerous category, hiding in plain sight.

A Thousand Plateaus

Smooth space and desiring-machines. The philosophical substrate under SoftMachine's architecture.

AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse

The formal model of the problem. Successive AI generations sample out the tail. The distribution of human thought collapses toward the mean.

Thinking in OODA Loops

"Disoriented decision makers are doomed."

OODA reframed as a mental discipline. Orient is the phase that determines whether the loop runs at all — and the phase the modern signal environment makes hardest.