All Notes

Entertainment

The ending wasn't a betrayal — it was the thesis. The Roy children were never going to inherit anything because they were never meant to. They were props in their father's self-mythology. The show understood this from episode one; the audience just needed three seasons to catch up.

Art

Brutalist architecture doesn't pretend. The concrete is concrete; the structure is the facade. There's something almost moral about a building that refuses to hide what it's made of — especially in an era when everything is veneer.

Reads

There's a productivity cult around reading — track your books, hit your annual target, optimize your retention. All of it misses the point. Some books are meant to be lived with for months, half-read, returned to. The unfinished book is not a failure.

AI

We keep framing alignment as an engineering challenge — as if the right loss function will eventually produce a machine that wants what we want. But we don't agree on what we want. The alignment problem is downstream of that disagreement, not upstream of it.