A glimpse into what I'm thinking about and the research I'm chasing, spanning across essays, op-eds, notes, and the occasional paper. New writing lands here as it's finished; older pieces can be found in the index below.
EssayOp-edNotesPaper
INDEX
2026
May
Cognitive RAG Architectures: How AI Can Borrow from Human Memory to Make Better Decisions↗Paper
The future of retrieval-based AI lies not in scaling the corpus but in scaling the cognitive architecture — stratified, decay-weighted, reflective, and reconstructive.
12 min
May
The Internalization of Authority, Freedom, and Progress↗Essay
AI promises freedom but delivers the perfection of self-government. Marx, Foucault, and Freud each catch the same mistake at a different layer.
10 min
Mar
On the Basis of Recognition↗Essay
Society sees itself in the work you produce, and grants you a place in it. Smith, Sieyès, and Marx on how belonging is constructed — and withheld.
8 min
2025
May
Reflections on a Year at Columbia↗Op-ed
Notes on the conveyor belt at Columbia, the Gervais Principle, and the questions that brought us here in the first place.
6 min
Apr
Minds Imitating Machines: What AI Reveals About Human Intelligence↗Paper
Dostoevsky's adage about life imitating art has an AI parallel. What if biological intelligence is now mimicking the very systems it inspired?
14 min