The Prestige Acquisition Trap
When ownership logic diverges from institutional purpose, ownership wins. The institution's mission was always contingent on the owner's patience—we just didn't see it.
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agency
Skills as Composable Units
Your expertise has a shape. A de facto standard is emerging for packaging agent capabilities—and it means you can solve problems once and carry them forward forever.
The Taste Artifact
Liberating Trapped Data
The Usability Inflection Point for Sandboxing
The Transcript as Work Product
The Maintenance Threshold
The Test Suite That Lets You Move Fast
awakening-alignment
The Self That Isn't Productive
You don't need an ROI for the poem. The third self doesn't owe the social self an explanation.
The Fear That Empties the Present
The Immensity Practice
The Projection We Call Love
The Mornings Are My Afterlife
Becoming Fool and Elder Simultaneously
In Praise of Confusion
history-systems
The Prestige Acquisition Trap
When ownership logic diverges from institutional purpose, ownership wins. The institution's mission was always contingent on the owner's patience—we just didn't see it.
The Invisibility of What Works
The Seal That Stopped Sealing
The Documented Risk
The Slow Disaster as Dominant Form
The Inheritance Trap
The Consent You Owe Now
rest-rhythm
Community as Infrastructure
The potluck isn't a break from the work. It's the work in its quiet phase—building the network before you need it urgently.
The 32-Year Mirror
The Rest You Can't Retreat Into
The Exhausting Conversation
The Privatization of Recovery
The Half-Word We Lost
The Micro-Season Permission
human-ai
Desire Paths
What if hallucinations aren't errors but expectations we haven't built yet? Steve Yegge's 'desire paths' pattern inverts who's teaching whom.
The Relationship Layer
The Advertiser in the Room
Calibrated Distrust as Craft
The Return of the Prodigal Coder
The Interdependence Reframe
