Stephen Donahue
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Retract the seven published columns into drafts/ and promote the 24 per-date entries split out of Notes/random.md. Bodies are verbatim; titles, subjects and slugs are new. Make publication a matter of location. Notes/Notes.11tydata.js gives anything under Notes/ permalink: false unless tagged `column`; drafts/drafts.11tydata.js renders drafts at their real permalink under `yarn dev` and excludes them from collections entirely in a build, so no template can surface one. Publishing is now `git mv drafts/<file> columns/`, and moving it back retracts it. Untagged notes were previously rendered into _site/ and deployed — including Notes/random.md, which was live at /Notes/random/.
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title: A Weak Model
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date: 2026-05-31
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layout: column.njk
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tags: [column, philosophy]
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permalink: /columns/2026/weak-model/
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what I think I understand about the world is a weak model.
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vs. a great collected wisdom.
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To lean so heavily on my own insights (or belief in my capacity) is to disregard a much larger sensitivity, a much richer history of wisdom.
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To celebrate my beliefs, my ideas - god help me if they're unique - they're so myopic. They only make me the expert of my little quiet corner. Cut off and isolated from the much grander wisdom of humanity.
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It's an inheritance. Cultural, familial.
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Whatever I might discover through my painfully small window into the world is only enough to cement me to it.
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A "perpetual motion" agent - well, maybe not perpetual (if we pull the plug) but how do we instill an agent with a particular "mission," and have it work autonomously, in perpetuity, towards objectives of its own design? Independently. Human solidly out of the loop. Asynchronous communication. It can ask us questions, but isn't blocked on a response.
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What kind of mission would we send it on?
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What would I do with it?
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I still find myself being the "glue" between data consumers and producers. Shuttling build results to the agent for review and follow-up.
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Presumably that path gets paved more with deliberate effort.
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