ESSAYS
Essays and reflections
Long-form writing on philosophy, technology, culture, faith, work, and the questions that shape a life.
The Intelligence That Cannot Move a Text Box
Two Experiences of the Same Intelligence I recently found myself moving between two very different experiences of artificial intelligence. In one, I was having…
The Tools Between Thought and Words
A Writer Who Never Left His Word Processor There is something wonderfully anachronistic about imagining Seigo Matsuoka at work in the 2020s. Around him…
The Thought Within Every Practice
When the Formula Comes Before the Question Many students first encounter mathematics as a sequence of instructions. Memorize the formula, identify the type of…
The Right to Understand
The Documents That Refused to Speak Most people have encountered a document that appears to be written in English but does not seem addressed…
The Currency of International Authority
A Court Performing Its Duty and Losing Its Credit An international court issues an arrest warrant. From inside the institution, the act appears straightforward.…
Activity Without Alarm
The Body That Changes After Dark A respiratory illness can feel like two different conditions depending on the hour. During the day, a cough…
The Universal Reader Who Does Not Exist
The Feeling of a Clean Page Some pages feel clean before we have decided whether we agree with them. The sentences proceed without congestion.…
From Token Maxing to AI Maturity
When Using More Became a Virtue For a brief period, consuming AI tokens began to look like a professional virtue. Companies announced their intention…
The Grand Narrative Against Grand Narratives
The Distance Between Reputation and Argument A strange discomfort can arise when a celebrated thinker speaks about a subject we know through daily experience.…
When Leaving Church Feels Like Leaving Christianity
When a Place Becomes the Whole World Imagine a person in Japan who became Christian as an adult. Baptism was not a cultural formality…
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