Essays
Long-form essays on technology, business, property development, and other topics that interest me.
Hello, World
This is the first essay on pickering.ae, explaining what this site is about and what to expect.
The Remnant
Albert Jay Nock's 1936 essay on why prophets should forget the masses and serve only those who can hear—the Remnant. A meditation on quality over quantity, and on the peculiar satisfaction of working …
Convexity
Nassim Taleb's framework for understanding why convex payoffs—where you gain more from the upside than you lose from the downside—dominate knowledge-seeking in uncertain domains. These seven rules …
The Ulam Spiral
I built a 3D visualization of the Ulam spiral using C++ and OpenGL. The program generates primes, plots them on a spiral grid, and reveals the mysterious diagonal lines that emerge—lines that hint at …
Twin Primes
Personal exploration of twin primes through code. I wrote programs to identify twin prime pairs and analyze the differences between consecutive pairs—discovering that the smallest gap is always 6. A …
The Riemann Hypothesis
Personal notes on understanding the Riemann Hypothesis—from complex numbers to the critical strip, from trivial zeros to the connection with prime numbers. A work in progress as I build intuition …