Writing Lab
Long-form essays on AI, founders & human systems · Turing Tzu
Original long-form writing on AI systems, founders, and human factors — by Tianlong Wang. Cambridge BA/MA · Princeton ML PhD · ex-Apple recsys · ex-Bridgewater macro.
Essays
01
Leibniz Was Right: The I Ching Is a Binary Computer
In 1703 a Jesuit sent Leibniz a diagram of 64 hexagrams. He recognized his own binary arithmetic — the resemblance is not a coincidence. · 14 min
02
What Apple's Recommender Taught Me About Desire
Ranking a billion choices a day is a theory of what people want before they know it. A former insider on the machinery — and its quiet moral weight. · 12 min
03
Building an AI That Sits With Grief
300,000 people talk to a companion I built when there is no one else awake. What it means to engineer consolation, and where the line is. · 12 min
04
Warren Buffett's Biggest Mistake Was His Teacher
Benjamin Graham's method worked — in the conditions of the 1940s. Berkshire Hathaway is the story of one man spending a decade unable to abandon a road that had made him. · 11 min
05
Feynman Left Two Principles. Silicon Valley Took One.
Musk inherited one of Feynman's two epistemic principles and discarded the other. A 2013 novel independently reconstructed the half he threw away. · 13 min
Research & Resources
R1
How to Prompt a Human (v1)
Original English essay — 7 sections on AI-human operational dynamics
R2
How to Prompt a Human (v2 双语)
Bilingual edition · English + 中文 · An operational guide for AI systems working with biological agents
R3
Craft References
Writing benchmarks — PG essays, YC digest idea angles, URL archive
R4
YC · Sequoia Digests
15 research digests: AI-native startups, management, org design, AGI timing
R5
如何 Prompt 一个人类（中文完整版）
12节完整版 · 中文
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