how I think when I think about programming (2022)

a whirlwind tour through the guts of the system

friendly advice from an eccentric stranger

alien intelligences (2019)

dreams of digital intelligence

an ode to alternate ways of being

playing to win (2017)

anecdotes from working over a minecraft economy

musings on the joy of learning and exploiting complex systems

a priesthood of programmers (2017)

a brief history of communications technologies

the role of priestly classes in society

the decline of consensus reality

splain it to me (2015)

speech as information exchange versus emotion harmonization

human socialization viewed from ten thousand feet

pine, bamboo, and plum (2011)

old stories from an imagined past

using a strategy game for guided worldbuilding