Essays on Development & Education
Thinking in Verbs
The Grammar of How We See
Language is not neutral. The way we grammatically construct experience shapes what we are able to perceive within it.
A noun fixes. It says: this thing has edges, it is bounded, it is this and not something else.
A verb moves. It says: this thing is in process, it is mid-action, it has not yet resolved.
When we describe human experience — and especially the difficult, charged, intimate territory of human relationship — we almost always default to nouns.
Phase Change, Collapse, and the Role of Contact
AI doesn’t know what’s true, meaningful, or wise—but it is very good at producing language that sounds coherent under pressure.
Without a way to assess structure—load, capacity, thresholds—it’s easy to mistake pattern density for insight.
Physics doesn’t make AI smarter.
It makes readers more oriented.