Do You Actually Know the Earth is Round?
A pragmatic look at the difference between knowledge, belief, and borrowed certainty.
Evidence is not a feeling — it's a trail you can walk.
Read more →Articles. Essays and short stories about epistemic humility, incentives, and the discipline of being unsure.
The theme is “trust-chains.” Follow them far enough and you’ll find incentives.
Entropy, Belief, and Why Overconfidence Fails
Why complexity punishes arrogance — and how to keep beliefs updateable.
Read more →The Volkov Files: A Cold War Secret That Won't Die
Most certainty is rented, not owned.
A Soviet scientist defects with evidence of extraterrestrial contact. Or does he?
Read more →The Archive of Almost-Truths
A short story about citations, incentives, and stability.
Read more →The Mapmaker’s Margin
A neat story is a social technology.
A short story about precision and what gets hidden in the margins.
Read more →The Witness Who Wouldn’t Swear
A short story about nuance in a system that punishes it.
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