Decan 24: Building Systems That Outlive You
On agent mode as thinking transformation, building what holds when you step away, and the 535 million kilometers traveled while testing whether foundations could endure
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Decan 23: Blooming in the Desert — When the Dying Star Teaches Transformation Through Instability
On learning to glow under pressure, showing up when it feels absurd, and the 535 million kilometers we traveled while transformation unfolded
535 Million Kilometers: When Sisyphus Learns to Automate the Boulder
Time is motion. During 10 days tracking consciousness by starlight, we traveled 535 million kilometers through space toward the Great Attractor. On oath-keeping across cosmic scales, burnout as sacred data, and what Sisyphus does when he learns to automate the boulder. A philosophical synthesis spanning Stoicism, Absurdism, and Logotherapy.
Cosmic Motion and Human Perspective
Fall reflections on our cosmic motion—from Nevada's hills to the Great Attractor. Exploring how understanding our 620 km/s journey through space transforms our earthbound perspective of time, consciousness, and what it means to be 'star people.'
The AI Development Revolution: Part 3 - Enterprise Infrastructure at Startup Speed
Building enterprise AWS infrastructure in weeks instead of months. The cognitive cost of compressed timelines. How intensive development sessions and debugging marathons led to production systems. A reflection on infrastructure as creative medium.
The AI Development Revolution: Part 2 - The Methodology That Emerged
From chaos to system. How exhaustion and failure birthed a methodology for human-AI collaboration. The AAA Framework - Autonomous, Adaptive, Agile - and the cognitive investment it demands.
The AI Development Revolution: Part 1 - The Awakening
What it actually felt like when everything changed. The physical exhaustion of mental acceleration. Learning to think in partnership with machine intelligence. A reflection on transformation, not through theory but through lived experience.
The Multithreaded Mind: Six Weeks Living at Machine Speed
From copy-pasting LLM outputs to launching 13 repositories in six weeks: what happens when human creativity merges with machine intelligence? A philosophical exploration of time dilation, vibe coding, and the birth of augmented consciousness.
Writing as Vessel: Reflections on Thought, Intention, and the Infinite Loop of Creation
A meditation on the raw process of creativity, this piece explores the flow of words, the cycles of time, and the interplay between intention, thought, and the act of making. It questions the role of purpose in art and reflects on the human condition within the infinite span of existence.
The Steady Work of Freewriting: Flow, Focus, and the Future of Thought
A meditation on the discipline of writing as both practice and ritual, this piece explores creative flow, subconscious mining, and the strange intersection between human thought and emerging machine intelligence. It reflects on the nature of persistence, the future of creativity, and the unfolding evolution of self through the act of showing up.
Handwriting as Meditation: Sourcing Creativity Through Flow, Breath, and Rhythm
A meditative reflection on the practice of handwriting as a gateway into the subconscious. This stream-of-consciousness journal entry explores the inner mechanics of creativity, the discipline of returning to the page, and the mystery of sourcing original thought through rhythm, breath, and presence. Written at the turn of a season, it’s a poetic tracing of movement, inertia, and meaning-making in real time.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Few books have inspired as many readers worldwide as The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. First published in 1988, this novel blends philosophy, mysticis...
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Some writing books feel like technical manuals, others like stern lectures. Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life is so...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Few novels capture the complexity of human ambition, social class, and personal redemption like Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Originally pub...
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
This was such a precious audiobook and so well made. I can still hear the readers voice in my head and listened to this book on a recent flight and...
Gertrude Stein’s Essay on Writing Masterpieces: A Revolutionary Perspective
Introduction: The Art of Breaking Literary Conventions
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden isn’t just another book on human intelligence—it’s an interdisciplinary fusion of science, philosophy, and speculative inquiry.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Albert Camus’ The Stranger (L’Étranger, 1942) is one of the most iconic works of existentialism and absurdist literature. This novel, which follows...
