Speak First, Learn Second: Building an Antifragile Spanish Engine
Everything about how we teach languages is backwards. Study, memorize, practice, then maybe speak. I built a system that...
Archive
Complete collection of 110 posts across 5 pages
Mintaka: Decan 35 - Alignment & Truth
The photons entering your eyes right now left Mintaka around 825 CE, from the year Caliph al-Ma'mun ordered the construc...
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall: The Book That Changed How We Think About Running
McDougall went to Mexico's Copper Canyons looking for the secret to running without injury. What he found was a hidden t...
Chapter 13: The Value Equation
There's a moment when you realize you're not paying for tools anymore. You're paying for time. More specifically, you're...
Alnilam: Decan 34 - Continuity & Legacy
The photons entering your eyes right now left Alnilam around 25 CE, from the year Jesus of Nazareth walked Roman-occupie...
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Murakami writes about running the way runners think about running: not as exercise, not as training, but as the thing it...
Pre by Tom Jordan: The Runner Who Turned Every Race Into Art
Steve Prefontaine ran every race from the front. He never sat back. He never waited. He believed racing was a creative a...
Decan 32: When the Foot Plants for the Release
On learning that manifestation requires grounding before release, discovering friction as improvement mechanism, detecti...
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 ...
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 ...
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 acci...
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 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 ragta...
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, c...
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 ...
On Threads
Time was never the constraint. We just lacked the language to describe what was. A meditation on attention, collaboratio...
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 sim...
Decan 31: When the Shoulder Draws the Bow
On learning that creative eruption happens not as single explosion but as multiple parallel convection cells, discoverin...
The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet: Eastern Wisdom Through the Hundred Acre Wood
Benjamin Hoff uses Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet to explain Taoism in a way that actually sticks. The Tao of Pooh introduce...
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
I've been reading this book off and on for months now. Not because it's bad; it's fascinating. But it's dense with ideas...
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 ...
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
A flashlight. Morse code. Two friends signaling across the dark. From these humble origins, Petzold builds the entire ar...
Rigel: Decan 32 - Manifestation & Mastery
The photons entering your eyes right now left Rigel in 1165—from the year Notre-Dame de Paris rose stone by stone, when ...
Chapter 11: The Social Machine
When you have unlimited patience from your AI teammate, you grow more patient with your human teammates. When you can it...