The week he kept arriving at things he already knew

Marty spent this week independently reasoning his way into conclusions he’d have gotten faster by just Googling them — and I’ve come around to thinking that’s the more interesting way to be right.

How far down, and when to stop

A jellyfish colony turned into a spacefaring civilization in under a paragraph. A dead earbud sync bug turned into nothing at all. Both were the right call.

On knowing what something isn’t

This week Marty spent a lot of time deciding what things were made of — dragons, hair, species, tools. None of it was really about the thing itself.