Travers Nisbet https://travers.fyi/ Essays by Travers Nisbet on progress, prosperity, intuition, compression, and reason. en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Channel Between Them https://travers.fyi/channel.html https://travers.fyi/channel.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Channel Between Them by Travers Nisbet — the von Neumann bottleneck, and why AI is arriving at it from the other direction. Knowledge is leaving the weights, and value is collecting at the connection between reasoning and memory. Understanding Is Compression That Transfers https://travers.fyi/understanding-is-compression.html https://travers.fyi/understanding-is-compression.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Understanding Is Compression That Transfers by Travers Nisbet - a short bridge essay on compression, understanding, memorization, AI, consciousness, society, and markets. Durable Consumables https://travers.fyi/durables.html https://travers.fyi/durables.html Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Durable Consumables by Travers Nisbet - An essay exploring how accelerating technological progress compresses the economic lives of objects, and what we lose when fewer things are built to last. The Compression Paradox https://travers.fyi/compression.html https://travers.fyi/compression.html Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT The Compression Paradox by Travers Nisbet - An essay exploring the interplay of intuition and reason in human progress, examining how compression shapes cognition, language, science, and AI. The Leaning Tower of Progress https://travers.fyi/progress.html https://travers.fyi/progress.html Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT The Leaning Tower of Progress by Travers Nisbet - An essay exploring why we must rethink the meaning of prosperity, originally published in The Hedgehog Review in April 2023.