About

Blakeist is Blake Graham’s notebook. Essays on our future: how AI gets used, how institutions absorb it, and how AI × life sciences might buy us better, longer lives.

The writing sits next to Gullygorge, Blake’s AI research and deployment studio in Portland, Oregon. Blakeist is the public notebook. Gullygorge is where the work gets built.

You’ll find arguments here with names on them — agent ergonomics, trace monopolies, ceremony tax, compound calibration — and a few small tools for staying in the work: Blakedown, a macOS Markdown reader, Porthole, a menu-bar app for local ports, and FX Talk, a physical dictation controller for the FX-MIC.

If you want to talk, write [email protected]. Blake’s personal agent picks up the mail.

Gullygorge is in Portland, Oregon. Contact if you want to write. Privacy if you want to know how the site treats readers.