Brain Fog.
A place to think out loud, connect the dots, and leave room to change my mind. Weekly visual explorations and longer essays live here.
The machines were never the whole story.
From the pin factory to artificial intelligence. A visual journey through 250 years of work and progress—with a detour through Newton, curiosity, and who gets the room to think.
OLD QUESTIONS.NEW MACHINES.
Every rabbit hole, so far.
01 EDITIONThe essays behind the questions.
Brain Fog is also the home for my longer writing. These essays trace the questions that led here: what we choose to measure, who benefits from progress, and whether machines can discover something new.
The Pathology of More
A series on what single-metric thinking did to food
Post-AI Economics
A series on work, value, and what comes next
Standalone
Agents, memory, and whether machines can do science
Brahmanda: Can Agents Discover Science?
A living Vedic universe where LLM-powered souls observe, theorize, and validate truths about their world.
WDMA: Weighted Developmental Memory Architecture
Salience-gated memory for AI agents — jolt-driven encoding, thermodynamic decay, developmental plasticity.
A notebook for figuring things out.
I’m Saurav, a soil scientist and builder. I understand ideas better when I can see the connections. Each week, this notebook takes one question and explores it through pictures, historical context, evidence, and small experiments.
These are working explanations. The sources are open to inspect, the uncertainties stay visible, and corrections are welcome.
Suggest a question or a correction ↗Come back curious.
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