Welcome to The Categorical Imperative

# The Categorical Imperative: How Language, Logic, and Math Make (and Break) Meaning You finished college, maybe even survived grad school. You still care about why people say “do” inRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: How Language, Logic, and Math Make (and Break) Meaning

# You Want Logic? Put Your Shoes On First — The Categorical Imperative There are two kinds of people in the logic room: the ones who turn up barefoot —Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Put Your Shoes On First (A Logic Survival Guide by Dr. Katya Steiner)

The Categorical Imperative: When Clouds Trip Over Their Own DNS and Spreadsheets Become Religion You’ve graduated, you can explain blockchain at a party, and you’re ready to change the world—orRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: When Clouds Trip Over Their Own DNS and Spreadsheets Become Religion

# Ducks, Memes, and Resonant Proofs — A Practical Guide to Not Getting Eaten by Bad Logic If you like the smell of textbooks at 3 a.m. and arguing whetherRead MoreDr. Katya Steiner — The Categorical Imperative: Ducks, Memes, and Resonant Proofs

# Why tiny wins matter You know that little jolt — the one where a single observation dissolves three past headaches and you walk away feeling subtly smarter? Category theoryRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative — Small Revelations in Big Categories

# Why we still tinker (and why that’s okay) Remember when building a “better” programming language looked like an undergrad passion project, a cereal-fueled weekend of syntax design and loftyRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Reinventing the Wheel, with Effects (A Survival Guide)

# Math, Merit and Madness: Why Brilliant Kids, Bureaucracy, and “Relevance” Keep Colliding You’d think math would be a quiet affair: chalk, stubborn proofs, the occasional existential crisis. Instead it’sRead MoreMath, Merit and Madness: Why Brilliant Kids, Bureaucracy, and “Relevance” Keep Colliding

# The Categorical Imperative (Yes, I Mean Category Theory) Imagine a subreddit where anyone can shout “I’m right” and pin their own flair. Now imagine the International Code of ZoologicalRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Stamps, Stars, and Soda Pop — How Science Keeps Its Act Together

# A quick cosmic shrug You graduated into a world where phones are simultaneously tiny computers and passive-aggressive notification machines, and yet here you are, conscious in a 13.8-billion-year-old universe.Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Why You’re Thinking About Existence Now (And What to Do Before a Boltzmann Brain Steals Your Thesis) — Dr. Katya Steiner

# The Categorical Imperative: Small Victories, Big Diagrams There’s a peculiar high that comes with category theory: the precise second when a knot of definitions loosens and three arrows suddenlyRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Small Victories, Big Diagrams (Dr. Katya Steiner)