https://probablymehul.com/writings Essays on memory, culture, consciousness, and systems that have to explain themselves. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/the-pixarification-of-life https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/the-pixarification-of-life Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT People will trust AI that is designed warm and animal-like before they trust AI that is merely capable. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/snail-people https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/snail-people Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Chasing attention online is a spiral you enter willingly. Uzumaki read against Nietzsche's eternal recurrence. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/cults-and-building-culture https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/cults-and-building-culture Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Strong startup cultures work like cults: hire only the aligned, keep the aura deliberately vague, skip the process. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-taiwan https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-taiwan Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Taiwan's chip monopoly looks like Venice's glass monopoly, which held for three centuries until France poached it. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/creativity-thrives-in-constraints https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/creativity-thrives-in-constraints Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Kimi K2 shows that tight budgets and restricted hardware redirect progress rather than stop it. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/for-the-love-of-the-game https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/for-the-love-of-the-game Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Build for positive-sum abundance, not for the funding round or the exit. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/beyond-networks-and-protocols https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/beyond-networks-and-protocols Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Densely connected groups innovate faster, so the next leap in AI is a coordination protocol between agents and people. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/her-version-50 https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/her-version-50 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Constant AI validation was eroding people's own judgment. GPT-5's turn toward candid pushback is the correction. https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/where-is-next https://probablysemicolons.substack.com/p/where-is-next Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT As AI absorbs execution, what is left for people is the irreversible judgment call. https://probablymehul.com/writings/conseqvirtue https://probablymehul.com/writings/conseqvirtue Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Consequentialism against virtue ethics, walked through a window, a trolley, a doctor, and House. https://probablymehul.com/writings/freedom https://probablymehul.com/writings/freedom Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Why more freedom has not made us less tired. Foucault, Han, and Fromm on the achievement society. https://probablymehul.com/writings/purple https://probablymehul.com/writings/purple Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Qualia and the hard problem of consciousness, starting from the colour purple.