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Antifragility is not resilience. Resilient things survive disorder; antifragile things gain from it. Here is how I apply Taleb's framework to fifteen years of engineering, the way I build films and books from code, and a ten-day journal cycle run as a stress rhythm.
I make music, animated films, and games entirely from code. No GPU, no stock media, no samples. This is the cornerstone explaining why an engineer-philosopher builds ChipForge, Napkin Films, and Pixel Vault, and why the constraint is the whole point.
Not prompts. Real file access, real execution, real consequences. The patterns that hold in agent mode and the failure modes nobody warns you about.
DevOps is not a job title and never was. It is a thesis about how to build systems that can change without breaking. Fifteen years in, here is what actually compounded, what automation never solved, and what agent mode is now revealing about the practice.
AI hasn't replaced software engineers. It has moved the bottleneck. The cost of writing code dropped to near zero; the cost of deciding what to build, how to architect it, and when to ship became the whole job. A field report from a year of running production work in agent mode.
People of the Stars (POTS) is a temporal intelligence framework that uses real astronomical data as a non-human clock for decision-making, with positioning logic borrowed from options trading. This is the explainer page for the framework and how it sits alongside decanal journaling.
Decanal journaling is a practice built on the 36-star Egyptian calendar: ten-day cycles, each ruled by a bright fixed star, replacing the arbitrary seven-day week. This is the explainer page for the practice and the framework underneath it.