We are the average of our models

We are the average of the friends we spend the most time with. Today, one or two of those friends are models. And if these are setup to reinforce existing beliefs, we are no longer compounding our intelligence; we are blitzscaling confirmation bias.

February 13, 2026 · 5 min · mercurialsolo

Model-Adjacent Products, Part 4: Governance & Practice

Alignment as a runtime surface, policy enforcement without retraining. Team practices that ship.

January 9, 2026 · 4 min · mercurialsolo