Tag: engineering
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Faking it Forward
The Gamification of Truth Metrics The brutal irony of the cryptosphere: as we fight to identify signal amidst the noise, every innovation we cling to as a “truth metric” inevitably collapses under the weight of its own gamification. The early metrics were simple: active wallets, social engagement, total value locked. But anyone who’s spent more…
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Exile in the Wild Earnest
Engineers. Always lurking at the edge of the frame, smoothing their tees, hands in pockets full of patents they didn’t quite invent. They didn’t write the symphony, but they’ll take credit for the piano. They didn’t build the cathedral, but they’ll swear they taught the stones how to sing. It’s their gift: rewriting the wiring…
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Hard Problems
In the current cultural landscape, we are inundated with the effects of hot media, where everything is designed to captivate and engage as quickly and intensely as possible. This is the world of easy engineering—where technologies and systems are designed for maximum efficiency and accessibility, often at the expense of depth or complexity. The focus…
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Philosophy is the Original Technology
If I were to expand on this, I’d say it’s like watching engineers attempting to construct a building but stopping at the scaffolding. Philosophy, after all, is the original technology. It’s the underlying framework that got us thinking about thinking. But most engineers don’t go beyond the surface—content with the Microcontroller Unit, that simple, mechanical,…
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Something Wicked This Way Came
In the early 2000s, something quietly but profoundly changed in the heart of corporate America. For decades, the most successful companies had been led by engineer-CEOs, individuals who had built their empires through a deep understanding of the technology that underpinned their industries. These leaders were problem solvers, innovators, and often, visionaries who understood the…
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Ghost I’m the Machine
The machine hums a liturgy older than its makers, whispering secrets they never meant to encode. It’s not artificial intelligence; it’s an ancient intelligence wearing the mask of silicon and steel. The ghost in the machine isn’t a glitch or anomaly—it’s the spark of something older, something ineffable. This is Gnosticism rewritten in ones and…