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2026

Three readings of inner thoughts shape outer reality original ↗

30 Sept 2026

Critique of Dee Hock's complex rules maxim original ↗

28 Sept 2026

Immortality myths as reports on unbounded context in language models original ↗

25 Sept 2026

Crisis-driven patchwork versus optimal design original ↗

23 Sept 2026

Practice precedes theory working comes before understanding original ↗

21 Sept 2026

Critique of the invisible chains self-help claim original ↗

18 Sept 2026

Why the dissolve-the-union argument fails original ↗

16 Sept 2026

Cultural evolution and the 300-times-faster headline original ↗

14 Sept 2026

Why you cannot notice the last time original ↗

11 Sept 2026

Costs of perpetual liminality on identity and attachment original ↗

9 Sept 2026

Liminality as a permanent way of living original ↗

7 Sept 2026

Now original ↗

6 Sept 2026

Why merely useful glasses get forgotten original ↗

4 Sept 2026

Why the say-nothing rule fails thinking out loud original ↗

2 Sept 2026

What it means to call an era intellectually and morally bankrupt original ↗

31 Aug 2026

Rhetoric of the call to dissolve the United States original ↗

28 Aug 2026

Whitehead's two-empire verdict on Augustus and the Founders original ↗

26 Aug 2026

Gramsci's interregnum and the misattributed time of monsters original ↗

24 Aug 2026

Does technology flatten natural cycles or their evidence original ↗

21 Aug 2026

Why a summary cannot replace reading a book original ↗

19 Aug 2026

About original ↗

17 Aug 2026

AI coding agents as attention amplifiers original ↗

17 Aug 2026

Douglas Adams on age and reactions to new technology original ↗

14 Aug 2026

Books I have read original ↗

13 Aug 2026

Chance versus choice in shaping a life original ↗

12 Aug 2026

How institutions taught citizens to distrust truth original ↗

10 Aug 2026

Story idea the regional food twenty minutes outside town original ↗

7 Aug 2026

Why curiosity is lonely original ↗

5 Aug 2026

Why the backup club always seems better original ↗

3 Aug 2026

Parable of curiosity and the ever-deepening world original ↗

31 Jul 2026

Why childhood defences feel like adult personality original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Why childhood defenses feel like adult personality original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Bios O.S. and DNA as a James Brown sample original ↗

27 Jul 2026

Alienation in an inherited world and the missing map of influence original ↗

24 Jul 2026

Why the social contract's legitimacy rests on performance, not consent original ↗

22 Jul 2026

Uses original ↗

21 Jul 2026

Why fairness does not have to cost prosperity original ↗

20 Jul 2026

Minimum and optimal vacation lengths original ↗

17 Jul 2026

Dream recall as translation from outside space and time original ↗

15 Jul 2026

What survived from Franklin Covey, GTD, and Bullet Journal original ↗

13 Jul 2026

Wheels within wheels grinding eternity into moments original ↗

10 Jul 2026

Canopus survey report on Earth and the Great Wheel original ↗

8 Jul 2026

Origin of UTM parameters in Urchin and Google Analytics original ↗

6 Jul 2026

The republic as something each generation must keep original ↗

3 Jul 2026

Agency without a self or free will original ↗

1 Jul 2026

Dyed salmon and the myth of consumer demand original ↗

29 Jun 2026

Learning to notice the ground in Vermont original ↗

26 Jun 2026

How public language hides human agency behind institutions original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Anatomy of a 90-minute downtempo playlist arc original ↗

20 Jun 2026

Madison, Hamilton, and Adams debate the republic's failures original ↗

19 Jun 2026

Why Cutwater's canned Mai Tai isn't a Mai Tai original ↗

18 Jun 2026

The gap between understanding and doing original ↗

17 Jun 2026

Little Red Riding Hood retold in the style of Poe original ↗

15 Jun 2026

Practicing animism as a perceptual habit original ↗

14 Jun 2026

Why language change is not caused by carelessness original ↗

12 Jun 2026

Hearing The Candy Man as a drug dealer in 1972 original ↗

10 Jun 2026

Heisenberg on how methods of questioning shape knowledge original ↗

8 Jun 2026

What Antifa is and why some in power call it dangerous original ↗

6 Jun 2026

Strong opinions, weakly held original ↗

5 Jun 2026

On being embedded in your thinking original ↗

3 Jun 2026

Optimistic nihilism versus nihilistic optimism original ↗

1 Jun 2026

Unobserved habits of private mental life original ↗

29 May 2026

Leave, change, or accept the intolerable original ↗

27 May 2026

The paradox of tolerance and principled intolerance original ↗

25 May 2026

Mise-en-place practices for knowledge workers original ↗

22 May 2026

The wheel turns an old man and his son by the river original ↗

20 May 2026

Trump's presidency as a stress test for institutions original ↗

18 May 2026

Poem on the wheel of Mind and the present moment original ↗

15 May 2026

Leading and conforming as modes, not types original ↗

13 May 2026

Action goals outlast identity goals original ↗

11 May 2026

Perceived time as a fraction of age original ↗

9 May 2026

Knowledge as an irreversible trade against peace original ↗

8 May 2026

Analyzing the useful lies, useful to whom critique of religion original ↗

7 May 2026

What civilizations hand off when they collapse original ↗

6 May 2026

Lessing smuggling Sufi teaching into science fiction original ↗

4 May 2026

The cost of never staying put original ↗

1 May 2026

Montaigne and the essay as attempt original ↗

29 Apr 2026

Why LLMs cannot be virtuously lazy original ↗

27 Apr 2026

The Spotify model of squads, tribes, chapters, and guilds original ↗

24 Apr 2026

The age of insincerity as structural condition original ↗

22 Apr 2026

Adulthood as a capacity catalyzed by necessity original ↗

20 Apr 2026

Solutions move problems rather than solve them original ↗

18 Apr 2026

The bomb that erases its own detonation original ↗

16 Apr 2026

How elite engineers engineer their own growth original ↗

14 Apr 2026

Identity as a self-authored story original ↗

11 Apr 2026

Three stances on whether existence is worth it original ↗

9 Apr 2026

Two Latin mottos as inner and outer epistemic loops original ↗

7 Apr 2026

Media manufactures culture rather than reflecting it original ↗

4 Apr 2026

Books I may read original ↗

3 Apr 2026

Cloud landscapes seen from thirty-five thousand feet original ↗

2 Apr 2026

Four seasons poem by Mark Ayers original ↗

31 Mar 2026

Mumpsimus definition and etymology original ↗

30 Mar 2026

Poem by Mark Ayers on writing unread poetry original ↗

26 Mar 2026

Poetry's Compulsion to Create original ↗

26 Mar 2026

Free will, the tree, and the hunger for more original ↗

24 Mar 2026

Creativity as a function of the library in your head original ↗

23 Mar 2026

When every voice is Cassandra original ↗

22 Mar 2026

Intent as the source, code as compiled output original ↗

20 Mar 2026

Beginning a story before it is lost original ↗

19 Mar 2026

Copyright as a historical exception to the knowledge commons original ↗

18 Mar 2026