# Travers Nisbet

> Personal site. Essays on progress, prosperity, intuition, compression, and reason. Based in San Francisco. Founder of Parallel.

## Site

- [Home](https://travers.fyi/): Main page and bio
- [Writing](https://travers.fyi/writing.html): Full essay index

## Essays

- [The Channel Between Them](https://travers.fyi/channel.html): The Channel Between Them (June 2026)
- [Understanding Is Compression That Transfers](https://travers.fyi/understanding-is-compression.html): Understanding Is Compression That Transfers (June 2026)
- [Durable Consumables](https://travers.fyi/durables.html): Durable Consumables (November 2025)
- [The Compression Paradox](https://travers.fyi/compression.html): The Compression Paradox (November 2024)
- [The Leaning Tower of Progress](https://travers.fyi/progress.html): The Leaning Tower of Progress (April 2023)

## Optional

- [The Bottleneck Theory of Everything](https://entangle.substack.com/p/the-bottleneck-theory-of-everything): The Bottleneck Theory of Everything (June 2023)
- [The Paradox of Progress](https://paradoxofprogress.com/): The Paradox of Progress (August 2022)