Decan 32: When the Foot Plants for the Release
On learning that manifestation requires grounding before release, discovering friction as improvement mechanism, detecting the first signal, and trave...
Joshua Ayson
Exploring consciousness, creativity, and technology through philosophical essays, book reviews, and reflective writing.
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Journal Reflections on consciousness and life patterns
Decan 31: When the Shoulder Draws the Bow
On learning that creative eruption happens not as single explosion but as multiple parallel convection cells, discovering four domains where power dep...
Decan 30: Finding Direction Through Clouds
Ten cloudy days learning to navigate by feel when you cannot see the star. On discovering that direction lives inside you, not in the sky.
Book Reviews Honest reviews of books that shaped my thinking
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
I'm listening to the audiobook edition while working, and Phil Knight's voice (through the narrator) feels like sitting with someone who built somethi...
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven
I listen to Admiral McRaven's commencement speech every week. Not every day. Not randomly. Every week. The book expands on that famous University of T...
The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman: A Practitioner's Review
Reading this while actively trading iron condors myself, I see what Simons got right that most traders miss: systematic execution, defined risk, relen...
Thoughts Quick reflections and insights on life and work
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I AM AI SLOP: Confessions from the Forge
A confession and a manifesto: living in the pages where AI-assisted content is forged, choosing intentionality over accident, and discovering why the ...
On Threads
Time was never the constraint. We just lacked the language to describe what was. A meditation on attention, collaboration, and where the threads of a ...
Agentic Development: How to Build Software with AI Agent Workflows
Agent mode changes everything. Learn how to structure repositories, manage extended context, and build systematic workflows that let AI agents handle ...
Essays Philosophical explorations of technology and ideas
The Complete AI Development Revolution: 7-Part Series on Coding with AI
Complete guide to the AI development revolution. Seven parts covering methodology, infrastructure, content, business, and the future of coding.
AI Development Revolution Part 7: Advanced Patterns
When AI development becomes art. Advanced patterns from game development revealing human-machine collaboration. Beyond automation.
AI Development Revolution Part 6: Future Impact
The cognitive price of transformation. When individuals build enterprise systems at massive personal cost. Capability vs sustainability.
Free Writing Stream-of-consciousness explorations
The Line Continues: Motion, Witness, and the Craft of Space
From Goonies wisdom to cosmic motion, a stream-of-consciousness journey through the craft of writing. On being witness and scribe, the sacred line, mo...
Stay Out of the Way: Being a Scribe to Consciousness
Organic, bubbling energy. Return to the practice: breath work, loose hands, posture. Stay out of the way but in focus, capturing transmissions as beau...
Hormesis, Universe, and Late-Night Flow
What constitutes hormesis. Nobody told me it was broken! A 1:38am exploration of stress and adaptation, the Universe vs God, AI minion work, and the m...
Original Books Latest chapters from ongoing works
Chapter 12: The Knowledge Spiral
Working with AI doesn't just teach you new things. It reveals how much of what you 'know' is shallow, contextual, or simply wrong. And it happens at a...
Bellatrix: Decan 33 - Will & Strategy
The photons entering your eyes right now left Bellatrix in 1775, from the year George Washington took command of a ragtag militia facing the world's g...
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