The Check That Bounces
Governance checks assume that stopping an action reverses the damage. When costs diffuse faster than corrections concentrate, the check arrives — but the account is empty.
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agency
Build Three, Pick One
When generation is nearly free, planning is no longer cheaper than building. The smart move: write the tests, build three implementations, and let measurement replace speculation.
The Friction That Carries Meaning
Familiarity Beats Cleverness
Skills as Composable Units
The Taste Artifact
The Taste Artifact
Liberating Trapped Data
awakening-alignment
The Machine That Forgot to Feel
Darwin's mind became a machine for grinding facts — and the capacity for beauty went silent. What you don't practice, you lose.
The Softening
The Softening
The Self That Isn't Productive
The Fear That Empties the Present
The Fear That Empties the Present
The Immensity Practice
history-systems
The Check That Bounces
Governance checks assume that stopping an action reverses the damage. When costs diffuse faster than corrections concentrate, the check arrives — but the account is empty.
The Performance Test
The Prediction Market Exploit
The Knowledge-Action Gap
The Prestige Acquisition Trap
The Invisibility of What Works
The Seal That Stopped Sealing
rest-rhythm
The Dangerous Green
When energy returns after a depleted season, not everything that grows back is nourishing. The desert greens teach us that recovery demands discernment.
The Fast That Sets the Clock
The Machine You Work Inside
Community as Infrastructure
The 32-Year Mirror
The Exhausting Conversation
The Rest You Can't Retreat Into
human-ai
The Poet Who Built the Cage
An AI safety researcher quits to study poetry. The exit isn't burnout — it's diagnosis: the mode of knowing that built the safeguards cannot reach the thing they're meant to protect.
The Trust Paradox
Three Names for the Same Wound
The Exhaustion Engine
Desire Paths
The Relationship Layer
