Language is how we make sense of uncertainty, how we convince ourselves and others that we're moving toward something meaningful. An honest position is to hold our words lightly - to use them as tools without mistaking them for the work itself. Perhaps the goal isn’t to master the words, but to succumb to their lifecycle, or to learn, at last, how... See more

But ambiguity, taste, meaning, value, these remain hard to attain within the hierarchy of verifiability. “Intelligence” races ahead wherever the rewards are liquid and the outcome is easy to check, but it lags at the edges: in murky context, slow feedback, or spaces where the answer is more felt than measured.

While it’s tempting to believe a model... See more

But what felt new was the speed and violence with which language now manifests markets. I’d sit in meetings as a single phrase “AI-native vertical SaaS,” “verifiable compute infrastructure,” “narrative-market fit” jumped from one tweet thread to demo days to term sheets to LinkedIn profiles, mutating as it spread. Words weren’t just signals,... See more