Foursquare - Reading the American House

Foursquare - Reading the American House

The American Foursquare is unusual in this series in that it has, by any reasonable reckoning, no architect, no …

Date 2026-05-14
Words 5491
Read 26 min
Power A
Speed E
Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
The Chinese AI Trajectory

The Chinese AI Trajectory

This is the fifth and final post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. …

Date 2026-05-13
Words 3476
Read 17 min
Power C
Speed D
Range A
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
The Meta AI Trajectory

The Meta AI Trajectory

This is the fourth post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series …

Date 2026-05-13
Words 3366
Read 16 min
Power D
Speed D
Range A
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
The Google DeepMind Trajectory

The Google DeepMind Trajectory

This is the third post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The first …

Date 2026-05-13
Words 3753
Read 18 min
Power B
Speed D
Range A
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
The OpenAI Trajectory

The OpenAI Trajectory

This is the second post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The first …

Date 2026-05-13
Words 2986
Read 15 min
Power D
Speed D
Range A
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
The Anthropic Trajectory

The Anthropic Trajectory

This is the first post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series …

Date 2026-05-13
Words 2795
Read 14 min
Power D
Speed D
Range A
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
Prairie - Reading the American House

Prairie - Reading the American House

The Prairie is the only style in this series whose name was applied retrospectively, by historians, to architectural …

Date 2026-05-13
Words 5243
Read 25 min
Power A
Speed E
Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
Craftsman - Reading the American House

Craftsman - Reading the American House

The Craftsman is the only style in this series whose name was, at the moment it was being built, a registered trademark. …

Date 2026-05-12
Words 4453
Read 21 min
Power B
Speed E
Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
wisp - Running WebAssembly Under containerd

wisp - Running WebAssembly Under containerd

A containerd shim is, in the usual case, an undramatic piece of software. It receives a few RPC calls from containerd, …

Date 2026-05-12
Words 4819
Read 23 min
Power A
Speed E
Range A
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
  1. ARCHITECTURE

    Foursquare - Reading the American House

    The American Foursquare is unusual in this series in that it has, by any reasonable reckoning, no architect, no manifesto, no period name of its own, and no …

    5491 words · 26 min
  2. AI

    The Chinese AI Trajectory

    This is the fifth and final post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series also covers Anthropic, OpenAI, …

    3476 words · 17 min
  3. AI

    The Meta AI Trajectory

    This is the fourth post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series also covers Anthropic, OpenAI, and …

    3366 words · 16 min
  4. AI

    The Google DeepMind Trajectory

    This is the third post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The first two posts covered Anthropic and OpenAI; …

    3753 words · 18 min
  5. AI

    The OpenAI Trajectory

    This is the second post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The first post covered Anthropic; subsequent posts …

    2986 words · 15 min
  6. AI

    The Anthropic Trajectory

    This is the first post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series also covers OpenAI and Google DeepMind; …

    2795 words · 14 min
  7. ARCHITECTURE

    Prairie - Reading the American House

    The Prairie is the only style in this series whose name was applied retrospectively, by historians, to architectural work its principal practitioner did not …

    5243 words · 25 min
  8. ARCHITECTURE

    Craftsman - Reading the American House

    The Craftsman is the only style in this series whose name was, at the moment it was being built, a registered trademark. The Craftsman was the title of a …

    4453 words · 21 min
  9. CODE

    wisp - Running WebAssembly Under containerd

    A containerd shim is, in the usual case, an undramatic piece of software. It receives a few RPC calls from containerd, forks a Linux process to run the …

    4819 words · 23 min
  10. ARCHITECTURE

    Colonial Revival - Reading the American House

    The Colonial Revival is the only style in this series that arrived as a revival of a revival. The American Colonial Georgian of the eighteenth century, which …

    4404 words · 21 min