Thought pieces
What a large language model is, what it costs, and how far it can be left to run on its own, from a chat window to agents running in loops. Sean's own path, with the picture that made each idea click.
Read →Thirty aboard a 1913 schooner, phones stowed, and one task: to record the Salish Sea as we found her in 2026.
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A week on the Cilento coast of Italy, at the invitation of Sara Roversi and the Future Food Institute. What a single town shows about when this kind of partnership is possible.
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A murmuration of starlings makes a shape no single bird intended and none could make alone. Most gatherings are built for transmission instead. What it takes to build for the other thing.
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A living lab as a style of engagement: the place participates, the conditions are the curriculum, and every gathering is a trial. The lineages it draws from, and the four experiments each gathering runs at once.
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Change on the coast needs three kinds of partner, and the one most often missing is the one that turns direction into something built. Where we sit, and why.
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