Circling the Whale
These pieces weren’t written as a planned series. They emerged while I kept finding myself returning to the same questions—about obsession, orientation, authorship, and what happens when meaning becomes spectacle.
Looking back, I see them less as essays and more as orbits. Each one circles a large presence—sometimes Moby-Dick, sometimes The Menu, sometimes the systems behind them—without trying to capture it.
This page gathers those orbits in one place.
- The Whale I Carried Integration, AI, and the Long Read
- Two Lenses at Sea Jung, Hofstadter, and the Architecture of a Mind at Sea
- Orientation and Drift Circling Moby-Dick
- Obsession and Ballast The Menu & Moby-Dick as an Open System
- Reflective Digestion The Menu as a Map of Distributed Understanding and Personal Reflections