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February 2026

Still Lost
Dreams, science fiction, and the discipline of not pretending to understand everything
 • Eric Wigart
The Tool That Needs No Manual
The first technology without a learning curve—where competence and incompetence look identical
 • Eric Wigart
What happens when a tool arrives with no instruction manual?
Not “no manual” in the sense that engineers forgot to ship a PDF, but no manual in the deeper sense: no barrier, no apprenticeship, no period of awkward…
 • Eric Wigart
The Architecture of Stability
Why economic elasticity depends on discipline, distribution, and domestic resilience
 • Eric Wigart
Six Doors to the Unspeakable
Navigating Complexity from Firelight to AI
 • Eric Wigart
Hugging R2-D2 is fine. Asking it who it is — less so.
There’s nothing wrong with liking your tools. Things get interesting when they start sounding like they like you back. A brief reflection on AI…
 • Eric Wigart
Stop Calling It Hallucination
Why a human metaphor is distorting how we understand AI failure
 • Eric Wigart
Three Essays on Power, Interpretation, and Institutional Failure
On how authority forms, how meaning is managed, and what happens when process breaks down
 • Eric Wigart
The Epstein Files and the Cost of Getting the Process Wrong
Why mishandling truth harms victims, corrodes trust, and weakens institutions
 • Eric Wigart
Orientation Before Intention
On pattern recognition, epistemic sequencing, and why some problems resist control
 • Eric Wigart
How We Find Our Bearings
Orientation, agency, and choice within what does not move
 • Eric Wigart
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