Here and There in a Game (October 2025) . When you play an open world game like GTA or Skyrim, you experience walking through a whole city or landscape where different locations seem real and separate. The shop is here on this street, the mission location is way over there across town, your safe house is somewhere else. As you play, these places feel genuinely distant from each other, and it takes time to travel between them. But here’s what’s actually happening. ...

Default Mode (October 2025) . Show a bone to a dog and watch what happens. Something deep in its operating system just fires up and it moves toward the bone, same with ants and sugar or moths and light. They have a default mode for this, programmed so deep they cannot help but follow them. Humans aren’t that different, we just have more layers of defaults and most of us don’t even know they’re running in the background. ...

AI Politics Problem (September 2025) . I’ve been seeing these polished documents floating around social media with detailed solutions and examples for Nepal’s political crisis, mostly written by ChatGPT or other AI systems. This is quite insane and borderline dangerous. I can’t stress this enough! Nepal just went through massive upheaval, where people died in the streets because of decades of political dysfunction. And some people think feeding prompts to generate the perfect solution to the problem is going to solve the issue. ...

Dial-Up AI (September 2025) . I spend hours every day talking to AI through text prompts and screenshots while building concepts, and it definitely feels like using dial-up internet from the past. The AI is smart, but our communication methods are very slow. I type explanations, upload images, and describe what I want. And the AI responds.. I correct it, upload more screenshots to show what went wrong and we go back and forth with each back and forth taking forever. ...

Love and Greed in Crypto (September 2025) . Note: While this framework applies to any community, from startups to religious movements to open source projects, I’m using crypto community as a reference point here because I have been working actively in this industry for the past 5 years and been here since 2014. Crypto promised to change everything with decentralized communities, shared ownership, power to the people, but if you spend time in most crypto communities, you will notice something else. ...