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Weeknote 53

Remembering to stop and protect my boundaries, writing a mishmash of the history of climbing and AI, having some incredible feedback from two programmes, planning The Field Station, TechFreedom sticke…

1d ago·6 min read·1080 words

Strap in (and harness up)

Is the harness more important that the model? A ramble through climbing history and the AI present and future. Random alright

3d ago·11 min read·2033 words

Weeknote 52

Silly cartoons, random exlorations of a less open sector via the medium of the physical laws of the universe, a trip to cornwall, work on Bearings, sharing Glade a tool for governance, and a bumper li…

May 31·11 min read·2147 words

Round up - March to May

An occasional round up all the posts and weeknotes and things I've been up to that some of you said you might like! A bumper couple of months - TechFreedom went live, a residential happened, The Past…

May 17·5 min read·823 words

There be goblins

In April, OpenAI published a blog post called Where the goblins came from. Starting with GPT-5.1, their models had developed an unprompted habit of mentioning goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres in …

May 16·9 min read·1765 words

Weeknote 51

Lots of great work, conversations and ideas really filled my cup this week. Plus I had some nice food, which always helps. Lots of interesting links this week.

May 16·6 min read·1166 words