Not Even Wrong Observations from the wild, in pursuit of timeless ideas. https://notevenwrong.co/ 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z Matt Powell Protopia as a pragmatic vision for the future https://notevenwrong.co/bits/protopia-as-a-pragmatic-vision-for-the-future/ 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z Protopia is interesting because it treats progress as a compounding mechanism rather than a solved state. The point is not that the future becomes perfect. The… Romero on Apple AI spending https://notevenwrong.co/bits/romero-on-apple-ai-spending/ 2026-07-28T00:00:00Z If you pray sometimes, then you are just an atheist who’s also fearful. If God exists, the only coherent response is to reorganize your entire life around that… Excellence is Exclusion https://notevenwrong.co/essays/excellence-is-exclusion/ 2026-07-28T00:00:00Z On concentration, chosen discomfort, and the trap of the frictionless life Intelligence Debt and Paying the Costs Up Front https://notevenwrong.co/essays/intelligence-debt-and-paying-the-costs-up-front/ 2026-07-28T00:00:00Z Why the companies that win with AI will be the ones willing to do the work Man needs dignity like he needs bread https://notevenwrong.co/bits/man-needs-dignity-like-he-needs-bread/ 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z A beautiful profile of a man that illustrates the simple idea that a business should be good for its craftspeople and its customer. That there is beauty in the… Speed is not velocity https://notevenwrong.co/bits/speed-is-not-velocity/ 2026-06-26T00:00:00Z Most technology breakthroughs start out looking like toys. This is true even when you're spending $xx on playing with the new cool thing. Sometimes these find… Movement vs colour https://notevenwrong.co/bits/movement-vs-colour/ 2026-06-26T00:00:00Z We live life in two modes Colour: In the moment happiness, reflection, introspection, fun Movement: Building things, learning, exercising Not everything fit… Good quests https://notevenwrong.co/bits/good-quests/ 2026-06-26T00:00:00Z There are many ways to think about the purpose of life, but the idea of choosing a good quest (as opposed to a bad quest or perhaps worse no quest at all) is… ROT https://notevenwrong.co/bits/rot/ 2026-06-26T00:00:00Z "Then we got Agents, and we forgot the lesson. We decided that we needed to throw these pseudo humans at everything, because everyone else was. Agents are… When the work is the by-product of the experience https://notevenwrong.co/bits/when-the-work-is-the-by-product-of-the-experience/ 2026-06-08T00:00:00Z Jony Ive, on designing the interior of the Ferrari Luce: “I just love learning more than I love being right,” “At the end of a project, there’s two products —…