<small>March 30, 2025</small> If you think that nothing has changed, I just can't even have a conversation with you. It's exhausting. Every time your energy is around me, I worry I might internalize it, I feel death is certain if I do. All of the value is in processing things fundamentally, some people call this, "from first principles", but even that term has baggage at this point. I know for me, the way I find clarity is by letting go of existing symbols and aesthetics and starting from scratch, thinking deeply, trying to navigate my internal state for the purest feeling, the purest question I can ask. I do this all of the time. It has saved me many times. When someone is talking to me these days, especially when they are explaining things to me, I've gotten into the habit of not listening to their sentences factually, but rather listening to their expressions as if it was music. I listen to the tone of their voice, I make a mental note of any interesting words they use, I scan for any loose ideas, it's all just collecting context for a prompt, I don't need their explanations when I can explore everything more deeply and in a way that would make sense to me using an LLM. I'm tired of their judgements, and dismissals, I'm tired of the way they need to put me in a box so they can remember who I am and understand how I fit into their lives, I love humans, but I have a more optimal learning partner now. The beauty of humanity has always been in exploring the things that you cannot reproduce, at every technological shift, we discover the next thing, I am not an artist, an entrepreneur, a filmmaker, or a software engineer, these are all just fucking words, they are limitations, I'm terrified of internalizing them, I am anything that I need to be, I am whatever I am designed to be, I am naturally moving from one day to the next, I am a human being. So at a baseline, please, when you talk to me understand that individuals and small teams can explore far more complexity than they ever have. My interest in this is fundamental, if more complexity can be explored, then why not find the new fundamental limit in that complexity? Why not make the scale of vision and understanding planetary and see what happens? Is there anything stopping me? I can still work incrementally, I can take problems I see all around me and solve them, and still know that I need to work my way up, I should work far faster now, I should try and discover the new limits as soon as I can. If what's changed is that my friends and I can now explore far more complexity than ever before, why would I pursue that linearly through software? Why just make an app with greater complexity than before? This seems dumb, why not understand the oceans? Why not understand how I relate to them? Why not make software that incorporates the fundamental principles of the way the ocean integrates with the planet as a broader cohesive system? Why not make software for the ocean? The time to go from idea to reality has dramatically compressed, it's useless to talk about things, just show me the prototype, show me the model of your vision, talking is obsolete, we are all architects now, show me the scale model. Let's converse through objects only. Let's more deeply understand the limitations of language. Everyone is making things, and this will expand in an unbelievable way, architecture will become the defining element of popular culture, maybe it already is, non stop architecture, from the moment you wake up, things will be architecting and re-architecting, so I have to keep thinking deeply, the value has shifted from "can you build it?" to "should you build it?" What should be built? What are the deeper truths about the human experience and the natural world? How can I create things that reveal this? On a fundamental level, what is architecture, and why? And What does artificial intelligence reveal about the things that only a human being can do?