About
One person's attempt
to make sense of the
strangest thing happening right now.
We have, in the span of a few years, built machines that can reason. That is an extraordinary sentence. This site is about living with what it means.
Why this exists
The existing conversation about AI tends to split into two camps: the breathlessly excited and the profoundly alarmed. Both are certain. Neither seems to be sitting with the genuine strangeness of it.
What actually happened is that we taught sand to think. Silicon, refined and arranged with extraordinary precision, started doing things that looked a lot like reasoning — and then, almost immediately, it became infrastructure. Something that extraordinary deserved more careful attention than most of it is getting.
This site is an attempt to pay that attention in public, and to think out loud about what the carbon-to-silicon shift actually means — for work, for creativity, for how we understand ourselves.
The perspective
This isn't a neutral outlet. It's a point of view — curious rather than certain, and genuinely interested in being wrong about things.
There's no agenda to sell AI, no interest in catastrophising it, and no patience for either the hype or the panic that tends to crowd out the more interesting questions. The goal is to be honest about what's actually changing, at what pace, and with what consequences — including the ones that are genuinely hard to see yet.
The name says it plainly enough. We took sand, and we taught it to think. That is weird. We should talk about it.
What you'll find here
Writing worth reading.
Essays and observations
Long-form thinking about the shift — what's changing, what isn't, and what questions are more important than the ones usually being asked.
A point of view
Not a news feed, not a roundup. A perspective, developed over time, that tries to be more honest than confident.
Updated when there's something worth saying
This isn't optimised for volume. It publishes when something has been worked through enough to be useful, not on a schedule.
Start here
The blog is where
the thinking lives.
Start with whatever catches your eye. Push back if you disagree.