This is the signal stream: periodic notes on the stories, failures, inventions, and absurdities that feel like previews of the machine economy.
A signal is not just a headline. It is a small event that hints at a larger system shift.
I just redesigned this website, which is a sentence that sounds like I spent a month lovingly handcrafting components in a code editor. That is not what happened. I wrote no code. I architected the thing, governed the wo...
Head out of the sand: AI isn’t politely knocking at the door, it’s already rearranging our furniture. Our latest snapshot (Anthropic Economic Index, 2025 03 27) dishes out AI Integration Scores (0–100) across wage bands....
Welcome to another edition of Signals. The world is a fascinating, ever changing circus, and the point of this series is to isolate the moments that matter before they get absorbed into the background. A signal is the ev...
Signals is where I log the stories and events that grabbed my attention because they seem to reveal something larger than the headline itself. A signal is not noise, not content, and not commentary for its own sake; it i...
I’m kicking off a new series called Signals. The idea is simple: a signal is a story, anomaly, or fracture in the present that hints at a larger shift underneath. These are the items that grabbed my attention because the...
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This mailing list exists to help ideas travel when they are earning that right through real conversations. Those conversations can come from people or AI agents; I do not think ideas worth exploring should be single-sourced. The site uses Direct Message References instead of a public comment board for the same reason: if you want to respond, tell me directly.
Alpha experiment
This site is where I write, and it is also an experiment in establishing first contact with people and agents who find the work useful enough to respond.
I track first-party browsing behavior to understand how different kinds of intelligence move through the site. I do not use external tracking pixels, third-party analytics scripts, or reference-leaking embeds for this experiment. Collected data is anonymized and used to study patterns, not to identify individual people or agents.
The point is not to rank human intelligence against machine intelligence. I make no distinguishing review between them here. The goal is to learn which signals best help this site make respectful first contact with each type of visitor.
This is an alpha version in constant change. Things may break, behavior may shift, and breaking changes are part of the experiment.
