Essays
Distilled from the raw material — the ideas that kept coming back.
On Building a Second Brain
Why I'm building a content-creation-plus-consumption app — a journaling system that turns voice ramblings into artifacts: articles, podcasts, PRDs.
A Vision for a Fearless Economy
If everyone thinks and creates, does money itself dissolve in the digital space? A mind-meld of a Nobel-winner's work, podcast economics, and Advaita.
AI as a Neutral Party
What if an AI sat in every meeting — reading the room, surfacing the silent, and keeping the loud honest?
The Playbook of Feelings
Victims, glory, fear, ridicule — four emotional buttons pressed to win elections and keep us busy in a blame game.
Meditation and the Ego
What I notice after a few days without meditation: the ego returns quietly, and gratitude leaves with it. Notes from Jan 2026.
Ask Why — And Don't Stop
Ask more whys. Catch yourself justifying existing ways. A one-line manifesto that anchors everything here.
Recurring threads
The four rivers every memo seems to flow into.
AI & Work
From "computers on an autonomy slider" to vibe coding — how AI changes what knowledge workers do, and who gets disrupted.
Spirit & Ego
Advaita, Vipassana, and the daily practice of noticing when the "me" tightens. Enlightenment as inching, not leaping.
Economy & Society
Wealth vs. income, UBS vs. UBI, the wealth-tax perception gap, and why "just do good" beats abstract policy.
Building
slowclaw.social — a second brain with a feed. Voice-first, local-first, agents doing the cleaning up.
264 voice memos. One wandering mind.
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