Thoughts

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Building a Language Engine You Can Actually Own
12 min

Building a Language Engine You Can Actually Own

Velocidad-AI is a free, open-source Spanish learning engine with twenty reference files including a Cognate Accelerator that unlocks thousands of words, a military-style Field Manual for daily practice, five real-world scenario ladders, six agent prompts, two hundred cloze exercises, and fifteen memory techniques. Browse it on your phone or run the full speak-first AI training system. No app, no account, no subscription.

Speak First, Learn Second: Building an Antifragile Spanish Engine
11 min

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 reverses the order: speak under pressure first, log what breaks, drill the friction, speak again. No app. No gamification. Just markdown files, agent prompts, and real people.

I AM AI SLOP: Confessions from the Forge
9 min

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 difference between "slop" and craft has nothing to do with the tools.

On Threads
7 min

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 life should go.