Hi Readers,
This is the first official livestream of 2026. I’ll be testing this livestream format over the course of the first quarter of the year.
If you’re unable to catch me during the livestream, you can checkout the video above. If you’d rather get a quick sense of the ideas covered, you can look over the timestamp + notes below. If you want a 1-minute overview, you can read the TLDR.
Thank you to everyone who tuned in! The next livestream will take place on January 23, 4:30pm CST.
Have a great week, everyone.
Dom
TLDR
~45 minutes runtime
Kicked off the Frontier Letter livestream (bi-weekly, live, unedited).
Shared early seed of what my next novel looks like (Matrix meets Dune in near-future America).
Talked through a shift in how I’m thinking about movement forward through a quantum worldview.
Thinking out loud about Michael Levin’s idea of The Platonic Space.
Key Ideas & Flow
00:00–02:00 Why I’m doing these livestreams
Live format as a way to think publicly.
Practice articulating ideas in public, livestreaming adds some healthy pressure.
02:00–08:00 December → January: writing update
December spent releasing a novella and researching/brainstorming next novel.
Current working pitch:
“The Matrix meets Dune in near-future America.”
Week was focused on:
Character interviews
Backstory
Purpose-driven worldbuilding.
10:00–17:00 Shift in my view of outcomes
Sean Carol’s Something Deeply Hidden reframed how I think about goals.
Outcomes are a matter of probability distributions.
Healthy influence + aligned habits = increasing the probability weighted on likelihood of success (though the equation might be more complex than that).
12:30–16:30 A Dream that clarified the idea
Dream image: a golf green with two holes, equal distance, cosmic backdrop, golf ball centered on the middle of the green. Dream ended with a question: What’s the mathematical derivative of a taxi?
Led me to taxicab geometry: might be one shortest route, but multiple different paths can get you to the same goal in the same number of steps.
17:30–28:30 Michael Levin & the Platonic Space
Consciousness may not be produced by matter.
Intelligence, mathematical constants, and archetypes may exist in this shared abstract space→ The Platonic Space
Math is discovered, not invented. They might be low agency patterns in the Platonic Space.
High-agency high intelligent patterns can be tested for goal-directed behavior.
28:30–41:00 Implications
Archetypes = dynamic behavioral patterns.
Biological forms and AI may access different parts of this space.
Raises questions about:
AI, agency, and embodiment
Why form matters for intelligence
Mystical practices as interfaces
41:00–45:00 Closing thoughts
2026 feels like an inflection year.
Plan is to keep thinking publicly and refining these ideas over time.
Next livestream: Jan 23, 4:30pm CST.
