The Rest of the Map
The rest of my cybernetics reading list has its primers now, from Beer to Boyd: a companion, an audio primer and a printed sheet for every work, shared while I am still learning it.
Writing
Four streams of personal writing, combined into one feed. Journals are longer reflections on consciousness, decisions, and the texture of daily life. Essays are long-form explorations of ideas, technology, and the mind. Field Notes are handwritten free-writing sessions scanned and published raw. Thoughts are quick, half-formed observations that didn't want to wait.
Arguing and Agreeing
Listening to cybernetics primers before the papers, and an insight about conversation theory: my work with frontier models, prompt to output to review, looks like Paskian conversation. Arguing and agreeing.
The Right to Explore
The hackers didn't understand the machine when they started. That was the point. So why is someone exploring with AI written off for not understanding yet? FORTRAN, the genetic fallacy and a loop.
The Grand Map: the AWS Solutions Architect Exam on One Sheet
The whole AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam drawn as one kingdom on a single two-sided sheet, checked against current AWS documentation, free to download, print and punch for a binder.
The Hacker Ethic Meets Cybernetics
A fourteen-year-old's robot bug at the MIT AI lab pushed a wallet across a grimy floor while the grad students upstairs wrote theses on why it was hard. The hacker ethic, rewritten for cybernetics, humility and AI as a partner.
The Regulator Was Fed Intents
I built the smallest loop that could be wrong, to watch a law from Ashby do work. The loop was wrong twice before it was evidence, the law turned out not to apply, and the real cluster already knew the fix. All of it measured, and explained from the ground up.
