Coffee with Claude

A morning walk through Oregon City becomes a meditation on thinking paths, historical layers, and the strange new companions we carry in our pockets.

Sixty years after the hypertext pioneers articulated their vision, the tools finally work at the speed of thought. What does it mean to implement ideas older than yourself?

A naturalist who spent forty years documenting ecological phenomena turns his observational methods on Anthropic's research methodology—and discovers the specimen cannot see its own evidence.

After forty years building systems to extend ecological perception, I find myself inside an experiment I designed—using AI not to replace thinking, but to extend its reach.

An NPR story about inner speech sent me inward—discovering that my mind doesn’t monologue or visualize, but narrates in real time, building understanding as story even before words hit the page.

A professor and his AI post-doc review thirty days of engineering the Macroscope—from sensor federation to Society of Mind to the temporal compression architecture that comes next.

A near-future story about an interconnected crisis in human and artificial intelligence—and one family's response. Can we trust AI to help humans become smarter again, or are we trapped in a mutual degradation loop?

The family begins designing their proposal—mapping what makes Strata different, bringing in community partners, and discovering that the solution isn't to scale one AI, but to provide a framework for communities to grow their own.

A retired ecologist reflects on collaborating with AI to build observational tools for his granddaughter’s future, drawing lessons from the Reformation and the evolution of scientific practice.