Manosai

Essays

If you're not sure which to read, try Personal Agents and the Roles We Learn to Play, On The Future of Software, Part 2: When Software Recedes, or The Human Curriculum No. 5: When We Cease to Understand the World.

AI

  1. Personal Agents and the Roles We Learn to Play
  2. On The Future of Software, Part 2: When Software Recedes
  3. Does Beauty Care How It was Made?
  4. Why AI Evals Are Necessary but Insufficient: The Reality Gap
  5. Einstein's Dreams: A World Where Models Grow Old
  6. The IMO Moment: Glimpses of the Future
  7. On Apple's Illusion of Thinking & Why We're Obsessed with Disproving Intelligence
  8. What I'm Learning about Building Great Products after 10 Years as a PM
  9. Prompting Is Becoming Interface Design
  10. We're Still Bending Tubes in AI
  11. Reimagining Software Part 3: Why We Should Embrace Agents
  12. Reimagining Software Part 2: Why Software Should Feel More Like Playing Video Games
  13. Reimagining Software Part 1: Thoughtfulness & Personalization in the Age of AI
  14. On Catching Magic, Even in Software

Life

  1. Finding Rhythm in the Snow
  2. The Silence in a Sky Full of Stars
  3. 2025 Wrapped: Why AI Made Me Write More, What I Wrote About, & What I'm Learning
  4. Fighting the Collapse is a Form of Human Intelligence
  5. 5 Things I Miss about NYC
  6. Finding Gratitude in Change
  7. The Practice of Finding Clarity
  8. How Skateboarding Taught Me to Think Creatively: A Love Letter
  9. On Cognitive Dissonance and Conflicting Truths
  10. The Most Important Story You’ll Ever Tell Is the One in Your Head
  11. How My Dad’s Immigrant Journey Shaped My View on Risk-Taking
  12. On Committing to Consistency: What My Sister Taught Me about Self-Belief
  13. The Real Truth about Facing Risk
  14. Why I'm Writing

The Human Curriculum

  1. The Human Curriculum No. 5: When We Cease to Understand the World
  2. The Human Curriculum #4: On Staying Awake
  3. The Human Curriculum No. 3: We Are Not the Center of Intelligence
  4. The Human Curriculum No. 2: The Origins of Capitalism & What The Abundant Intelligence Era Might Break
  5. The Human Curriculum No. 1: LLMs Are the Carpenter Approach to Building Intelligence