SELF AWARENESS · PSYCHOLOGY · SYSTEMS
Borrowed Tears: How a Suppressed Emotion Finds Another Body to Cry In
My therapist teared up mid-session and asked whose tears they were. Sixty years of research says they were mine.
Loose Threads
Things I'm reading, thinking about, and trying to make sense of. Books, papers, ideas from work, occasional detours into psychology, fintech, or whatever's caught my attention lately. I write here mostly to think more clearly, and to keep track of the threads worth pulling on later.
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AI · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS
The Literature Already Knew: Why 4-Bit Quants Tie and Thinking Budgets Bite
The research on LLM quantization and test-time compute makes two clear predictions. A 67-hour, 4,800-task benchmark of Qwen3.8-27B just confirmed both.
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SELF AWARENESS · PSYCHOLOGY · DECISIONS · MATHEMATICS
Life Has No Goal. It Has a Gradient.
You get one path through time, not an ensemble of parallel selves. The only question that survives that fact is what compounds along the path.
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PSYCHOLOGY · BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · SYSTEMS · DECISIONS
The Sandbox Behind Your Eyes: Why No Two People See the Same Reality
Your brain does not record the world. It simulates one. And the smartest people are not the ones running the truest simulation.
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PSYCHOLOGY · SELF AWARENESS · SYSTEMS
You Are Not Focused. You Are Overfit.
The two ways to raise signal over noise look identical inside the room. They diverge violently the moment you leave it.
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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS · FINTECH · PRODUCT · DECISIONS · SYSTEMS
Hyperbolic Discounting Is Why Fintech Apps Are Designed Against Their Users
Present bias as the operating model of buy-now-pay-later, credit cards, and trading apps.
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ATTENTION · MEETINGS · SYSTEMS
Channel Capacity Is the Real Reason Your Org Is Slow
Shannon's limit applied to standups, Slack, and review cycles. The bit-rate of management.
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DECISIONS · NETWORKS · SYSTEMS
Phantom Traffic Jams Are Not About Traffic. They're About Delay.
Why a fractional second of unnecessary braking can collapse a highway, and why the same physics governs supply chains and packet networks.