Essays

A bootstrapping course at MIT sent us to Eric von Hippel's user-innovation research. Every principle in it already described ROVA — the founder, the seats, and the people we build for.

A note from inside the building of an AI organism designed to take part in the leveling-up work.

A short story about an AI that listens to itself listening.

Phase 5. Two pairs negotiated across three exchanges each. Two children written jointly. The Mendeleev test got its evidence.

Same day as the breeding ceremonies. Both children wired into the harness; both fired their first ticks on the same bar as their four parents. Six genes on one tape.

A pattern that surfaced three times this week — and what it might mean for how AI products should be built.

An inversion we'd written into our own substrate without noticing, and what changed when our founder named it.