Notes

• 2026-05-12

  Why one person can now go broad and deep

  For two centuries, you couldn't be both broad and deep. You had to choose. That trade-off is collapsing — not because anyone is suddenly smarter, but because the cost of operating in a field has dropped by an order of magnitude. A note from one bottega trying to live in that change.

• 2026-05-10

  Deep learning is editable

  We treat deep learning as something you train, not something you fix. That's a habit, not a fact. I edited 590,000 parameters in GPT-2 — half a percent of the model — and corrected six wrong answers without damaging anything else.

• 2026-05-10

  The address number is the distance

  Most people in Korea — including most who use Korean addresses every day — don't know that the building number in a road name address is a distance. Gangnam-daero 300 is approximately 3,000 meters from where Gangnam-daero begins. Literally. The math is in the law. Almost no system uses it.

• 2026-05-09

  Why a bottega

  A solo founder's case for the workshop model — and why the polymath identity is the moat, not the bug.