Users can no longer build a mental model by recombining finite rules, so the agentic OS needs criteria that CLI and GUI theory cannot supply.
Why originality and persuasiveness pull against each other in natural-language argument. Universal evidence exists in formal proofs; in prose, rarer claims have rarer support.
On editing a senior-to-junior essay tradition from 68 to 188 pages. What trusting collaborators looks like under year-end deadline pressure.
On why a graduation speech only matters if it could only come from you. If TTS could read it without losing anything, the speaker wasn't needed.
Why we struggle to see AI as a material system of hardware and mathematics. Media narrative and fluent language convince us a black box has a mind.