Now.

A snapshot of what is actually open in my tabs right now: what I'm building, what I'm chasing, the half-formed thoughts I haven't resolved. Updated when reality changes, not on a schedule. Borrowed from the old idea of a /now page.

building

gnlab, and the machine that writes it

This site, plus the whole pipeline behind it: a voice guide, a five-stage writing process, and a generative hero generator. It is meta-project season, and I am fine with that.

ongoing · the current obsession
just shipped

We're all just prediction engines (allegedly)

My first genuinely mine post. Brains as prediction engines, the efficiency edge we keep bragging about, and why cheap quantum compute turns the consciousness question into a deadline.

published jun 2026 · the actual first
thinking about

Whether 'it's just predicting' and 'it's thinking' are the same sentence

Where the line sits between a tool and something more, and what we owe it once it crosses. I have no clean answer, which is sort of the entire point.

unresolved, probably permanently
chasing

Photonic quantum computing

The University of Tokyo's room-temperature optical machine, and TurboQuant before it. I keep getting pulled toward the research I do not fully understand yet, which is usually a good sign.

an open rabbit hole
quietly debating

Whether a $100/month AI subscription is justifiable

Meanwhile plenty of entities treat 'a few million' as a Tuesday. The debate continues, mostly with myself, and I am losing.

no verdict yet