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naming

4 essays on this topic.

Papers
  1. Biology as a Design Constraint: How Cell Biology Names Generate Architecture

    Using cell biology naming not as metaphor but as engineering manual — how mTOR's biology predicted circuit breakers, autophagy, and negative feedback loops before we designed them.

  2. When the Name Doesn't Fit

    Naming as a design constraint: if a tool resists a name, the tool needs redesigning, not the name.

  3. The rename that built a tool

    I renamed one concept across 130 files. The pain crystallized into a tool that will do the next rename in minutes.

  4. Budding

    Every other component in the organism had a biological name. Agents didn't. Three failed attempts and a yeast cell later, they do.