Field notes

Essays.

Field notes on installing AI capability one human at a time. The four layers. The retrieval contract. What the brain belonging to you actually looks like in practice.

Pulled from M.L. Sebastian on Substack— subscribe there if you’d rather get them in your inbox.

April 9, 2026 · Latest

Who Owns How You Think? Star Trek Answered This in 1989

A graphic designer named Mike Okuda sits down to build control panels for the Enterprise-D. Gene Roddenberry gives him one note: simple. Logical. Throw out everything you think you know about starship consoles. Okuda does. He builds LCARS… Michael, seriously…what the f#$% is L…

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