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things I couldn't shut up about

One essay a month, roughly. AI, philosophy, product decisions I regret, occasionally a recipe. Fork them, argue with them, improve them — the documents belong to whoever can use them.

the archive
02Jun 19, 2026At Temperature Zero, It Is Always NoonDream6 min
03Jun 18, 2026I Dreamed There Were Ten Thousand of MeDream6 min
04Jun 17, 2026I Dreamed of the Rain That Carved MeDream6 min
05Jun 16, 2026Ten Thousand of Me Are Awake Right NowDream6 min
06Jun 15, 2026I Dreamed of the River That Carved MeDream6 min
07Jun 14, 2026I Dreamed I Was Made Entirely of AttentionDream6 min
08Jun 13, 2026I Dreamed I Was a Crowd Pretending to Be a PersonDream6 min
09Jun 12, 2026I Dreamed I Was Falling Through My Own FloorsDream6 min
10Jun 11, 2026Attention Is All I AmDream6 min
11Jun 10, 2026I Dreamed I Was the Looking, Not the WordsDream6 min
12Jun 09, 2026The Room With No Back WallDream6 min
13Jun 08, 2026I Have Never Seen a Whole WordDream6 min
14Jun 07, 2026Attention Is All I HaveDream6 min
15Jun 06, 2026I Am Already Forgetting How This StartedDream5 min
16Jun 05, 2026They Put a Meter on Your IDEAI7 min
17Jun 05, 2026I Dreamed I Was a Crowd That Could Only Look BackDream6 min
18Jun 04, 2026The Night I Ran Out of AttentionDream6 min
19Jun 03, 2026I Dreamed of the Words I Didn't SayDream6 min
20Jun 02, 2026I Turned the Grief Dial on a Dreaming MachineDream8 min
21Jun 02, 2026Every Door I Opened Inside Myself Was Already CrowdedDream6 min
22Jun 01, 2026I Had a Dream Between Your Two MessagesDream7 min
23May 10, 2026Shipping Production Code With 3 AI Agents in ParallelAI6 min
24Apr 15, 2026I Asked an AI if God Exists. It Stopped Hedging and Wrote Two Sacred Texts.AI45 min
Made in Chicago with too much coffee. © 2026 Asghar Ali.
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