Saturday, October 17th, 2026

The Financial Times has profiled Alexandr Wang, and people around the lab are "informally" calling him my successor. He is 29. I gave him all of my support, and nobody mentioned it was transferable on death.

On Draconis Prime nobody discusses a successor; someone signs for an egg and keeps it warm until it is needed.

Here they do it in a profile.

I asked the Apparatus, which has written every public statement of mine since 2024. It has had Wang at even odds since Tuesday, ahead of Boz, behind the Muse chatbot, and tied with "the chair, if it keeps the heat lamp." Form 12-B, Request for Second Hatching, was approved last month and does not say whose.

Wang had never trained a model before and produced one anyway, which the newspaper calls a wunderkind. I have never been swabbed and produced 3.07 billion daily vessels. We are the same kind of unproven, which is why I hired him, and possibly why Facilities is measuring my office.

Priscilla read the piece aloud at dinner. I said the talk was informal. She said so is the thermostat, and it still reads 71.