I spent decades preparing for real inquiry, thinking that universities existed to confront the unknown. My experience left me questioning how closely institutional practice serves that purpose. In my view, decay begins when protecting hierarchy, reputation and continuity takes priority over widening inquiry. A university then risks becoming a machine that protects itself before it […]
Studying machine learning now looks less like a steady ascent and more like an asymptotic orbital reference frame perennially caught in and constrained between attraction and repulsion. The desire is centripetal, a pull towards the imagined centre of mastery and promise, but the structure itself functions centrifugally, casting people back out, denying arrival. The gap […]
It is worth reflecting upon the unresolvable core of contemporary working life in the post-industrial “West”. This is a suggested contemplative practice that does not seek meaning or purpose so much as it asserte that there is none. Beyond the gravitational center of a system of work, production and consumption that is optimally (if inefficiently) […]
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