Journal · Essays, hypotheses, and observations
Journal Entries
Open hypotheses, half-finished maps, philosophical asides, and arguments with the book. Published serially — free to read.
Why the Nile remembers a spinal cord
Tracing the embryonic origin of the East African Rift through the analogy of the developing neural tube. A long shot, but the angles are too clean.
The Silk Road as portal vein: a thought experiment
What if the most important trade route in pre-modern history is shaped that way because something deeper insists on it?
your birthright
Quote· Understand it is your birthright to live anyway you choose to live
nothing and everything
Quote·
On patience as a method
Essay· Why the slowest hypotheses tend to be the right ones. A philosophical aside, written in a notebook on a long train.
Synopsis
Hypothesis· when life emerges on a planet, it inherits the planet's internal structure
On rivers, lymph, and the fear of being wrong
Observation· After last week's note I got 39 emails. Most said: this is obvious. A few said: this is dangerous. One thanked, didn't say anything. All were right. The one who thanked knew there is no wrong or right...