Series № I · 2026 closed · 5 essays

On life emergent.

On meeting an unexpected future.

J E Corcoran 5 installments
  1. № 001

    First Steps

    In late winter of 2026, I was working on a bioinformatics project. I'd been poking it on and off for years - it was my attempt to give something of value bac…

    2026 · 05 · 03
    5 min
  2. № 002

    Recalculation

    “The answer always seemed obvious to me: there is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully …

    2026 · 05 · 10
    4 min
  3. № 003

    Shared Expectation

    My dog River is in her mood. She delights in being outside. She tears through the woods - I hear her feet thundering behind me, then in a flash she's out ah…

    2026 · 05 · 17
    4 min
  4. № 004

    Caged Dragons

    I mentioned growing uneasy the more I worked with coding agents. The first couple applications I built were on the standard pattern - an API call to OpenAI o…

    2026 · 05 · 24
    3 min
  5. № 005

    Reorientation

    So. A month and change have passed under the bridge since I wrote all the preceding. I've seen the graphic design that all starts to look alike. I've learn…

    2026 · 05 · 31
    5 min