Systems
Reclaiming Knowable Machines Across Systems
After I published my earlier essay titled The Decade We Forgot: How We Traded Intimacy for Scale a reader asked whether it is still practical to foster introspection at scale or whether the economic barrier has become too high to overcome. This article is a direct continuation of that piece. It expands the discussion to tooling, hardware, infrastructure, organisational culture, AI systems and economic incentives. The goal is to show that we can still build machines we understand. My answer is that yes, introspection remains possible at scale, but only if we recognise how many dimensions it touches and act accordingly.
Reclaiming the Machine: Designing Modern Systems with Lost Principles
Reclaiming the Machine After studying the Lost Wonders of Computing, it is tempting to grieve but grief is not the point. The point is reclamation. Many of those ancient ideas are not gone; they are simply fragmented across modern systems. We can rebuild a living, introspective, personal machine again by design.