Andrei Stoica

The Gervais Principle is this:

Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves.

The Gervais principle differs from the Peter Principle, which it superficially resembles. The... See more

Of all Krugman’s approaches to economics writing, this is the one I most want to emulate. Punditry isn’t science, but I believe there are approaches from science we can benefit from. Chief among those is what Richard Feynman called the “freedom to doubt” — the insistence on using our curiosity as our primary tool of seeking truth, instead of our... See more

The social standard this culture offers is one of controlled, placated solitude. Its narrative often insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to ever become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off, retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of talk therapy and Notion templates, and emerge a... See more

memory access boundary : the control surface where decisions are made about what to retrieve, when , and how . This boundary is where architecture meets context. It’s where resource constraints collide with decision needs. It’s where relevance gets filtered through availability and cost.

In computing, this is managed through layers of memory... See more

While seemingly open-ended and allowing for an infinite recombination of elements, the idea of “vibes” is reductive. It discourages the more difficult work of interpretation and the search for meaning that defines human experience. It diverts attention away from narrative and moral implications in favor of foregrounding the idea of affect as... See more