A call to evolve computing for the age of intelligence.
In 1979, Steve Jobs walked into Xerox PARC and saw the future.
What he witnessed—a mouse, a graphical interface, and a virtual desktop—wasn’t just a new way to operate a machine. It was a shift in metaphor.
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify
Chapter 1: Return to the Orchard
Before the iPod changed the world, before the iPhone defined an era—I was called back into a quiet, unassuming building on Apple’s Cupertino campus: Valley Green 6. That’s where my journey with the Special Projects Group began. But the road there
Nature is not linear—it is fractal, recursive, and reverent. Its patterns spiral inward and outward, reflecting both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the self.
From the microscopic geometry of a seashell to the vast neural constellations of the human brain, we see one truth repeated:
Evolving Privacy in the Age of Machine Predation
Nature evolves defense before destruction.
The lobster, armored and ancient, did not survive 400 million years by accident. It developed a hard shell to guard its vulnerable core—and it grew pinchers not just to eat, but to fight. As we stand
The future is never built in isolation. It arises through the interactions of hopes, fears, and systems—technical, political, and ecological. In Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack, we are presented with a new planetary architecture of power and interface, one whose magnitude echoes the ancient myth of the Tower of
