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Floating in Space, on This Rock
Floating in space, on this rock we call earth. Coming back to the ink, too many projects moving at their own pace, a year of learning with AI, and the giant silence of the mountains.
Freewriting
Handwritten field notes from the notebooks. Stream-of-consciousness sessions where the pen makes its own journey: raw, unfiltered, unedited. The point is to mine what is drifting below the surface, not to polish.
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There Are No Days Off
A Monday, the signifier of planetary time. A year whose most fun and riskiest adventure was AI, writing as the meta piece I get to keep, and stillness as relative: there are no days off.
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Vibe Coding with AI
Early vibe coding: an AI partner all day, commits and branches, Sonnet 4 crunching on a problem again after each control+c, and a Flutter app moving fast with hot reload.
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Layers of Abstraction
Short notes across a few June days: abstraction upon abstraction, a tabby cat interrupting, penmanship, and a test of freewriting in the dead time while an AI assistant runs a long refactor.
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Finding Balance in Motion
Back from travel with routines interrupted and foggy after a night of work. A cover that takes away heat, and a concrete home printed on Earthship ideas with a thousand years in mind.
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Living Through the AI Revolution
Tingling at being part of something historic: early work with AI tools, a race against limited energy, the gold rush fever of it, and the cold air that keeps the machine running.
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Embracing the Unwritten Future
A short May entry: which model gives the best stock screen, a deadline for affiliate sales, a long run of flavors and foods, and a feeling that this is a time for making and taking.
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Writing as Vessel
The next day, the same practice: you are only the vessel. Drift with a little direction, like an oil lamp in a deep, dark cave, and imagine alien beaches where mercury laps up to copper.
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The Steady Work of Freewriting
Two sessions on one April day: the joy of holding a pen and the steady practice of keeping it moving, then a late question about what writing was before it was called freewriting.
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Handwriting as Meditation
Back at the notebook after a trip: breath, posture, light hand, loose grip. The sluice machine, letting the word pull the ink, and reaching the end of another notebook as the season changes.
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Mining the Subconscious
A short page about decades as a small slice for seeing patterns, why I would rather watch trends than predict, and mining the subconscious by following the ink wherever it goes.
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Cold Feet, Cosmic Clocks, and the Sun That Rises Even When We Don't
Cold feet on the tiles, a long talking day that still felt like a Monday, and then the big questions: time as a fickle playmate, life as on or off, and the sun that sets and then rises.
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Writing in the Sun
Writing at a kitchen table in a sunny south window, still new to the place I live. A break for dishes, a hard run that empties the mind, and the pull of the pen when the writing starts to write itself.
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Hello Beautiful Page
An evening page that greets the notebook after a busy day. No topic, only the hand: loosen the grip, breathe slowly, keep the letters legible and even, and let the pen keep moving across the line.
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The Weight of Monday and the Wisdom of Birds
A new pen that writes like watercolor, a page on why Mondays feel heavy when Monday is only a label for time, and then a short fable about a scribe, the king who locks him away, and the birds.
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The Writer’s Sword
A restless night turns into a page about why I write and for whom. Writing is my sword, time is a measure I enjoy but do not quite believe, and the work is to keep producing.
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Why Are We Different?
A kids' show about rights sends me back to Rousseau and Mumford, then to the old question: same hardware as other animals, but it seems the software was rewritten. What changed us, and when?
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The Freewriting Journal as Anchor
Back to the freewriting journal after missing it: letters and symbols and where they came from, emotions that race the mind, visiting your own villains, and a running log of what is on my mind.
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Mining the Mind
A lunch-break page about how much I could write in a year at ten minutes a page, wrist slant and letter size, the need to keep doing the work, and mining the mind for an idea that is actually new.
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The Flow of Thoughts
A short January page: every great writer was challenged first by themselves, what handwriting does for thinking and stress, missing doodling, and the comfort of the narrator voice in my head.