Poured Brews

The Geometry of Almost-Understanding

What LLMs Encode in High-Dimensional Space — and What They Leave Behind

Feb 21 • Taylor T Black

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The Agent and the Subject

Meditations on Theory of Mind for This Era — I

Feb 13 • Taylor T Black

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January 2026

What Societal Permission Actually Requires

On Impact, Work, and the Preservation of Human Judgment

Jan 15 • Taylor T Black

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The Pedagogy of Fire: On Confession, Switchfoot, and the Theotokos

It has always struck me as one of the stranger features of my thoroughly Byzantine Catholic religious life that we persist in telling God things He…

Jan 14 • Taylor T Black

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Who Decides When the Agent Acts?

On Engineering Sophistication and the Question of Agency

Jan 9 • Taylor T Black

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The Theory of Mind We’ve Been Missing

Answering Satya Nadella’s Question About AI and Human Cognition

Jan 9 • Taylor T Black

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December 2025

The Invisible Workforce

On the Mechanics of Work and What Machines Can Absorb

Dec 30, 2025 • Taylor T Black

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The Texture of Memory

On how insights accumulate, how the past inhabits the present, and what AI can (and cannot) remember for us.

Dec 23, 2025 • Taylor T Black

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Layers of the Given

On waking consciousness, patterned experience, and the new role of AI in shaping what we see before we understand

Dec 19, 2025 • Taylor T Black

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In Defense of Memorizing

Introduction: The Puzzle Pieces We Learn by Heart

Dec 19, 2025 • Taylor T Black

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October 2025

Beauty will save the world

How Beauty Discloses Reality—From Balthasar’s Glory and Goethe’s Living Form to Pieper’s Leisurely Gaze, and What Their Wisdom Reveals in an Age of…

Oct 8, 2025 • Taylor T Black

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From Data to Understanding: Tools as Patterners of Experience

On the distinction between organizing data and arriving at insight in the age of AI thought tools

Oct 3, 2025 • Taylor T Black

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