Nathan Maxwell

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What I'm thinking about right now. Click any idea for the thesis — what the idea is, how it's structured, and where it sits in the network.

• writing2026-07-05 · refreshed 2026-07-28
  The supervision triad for self-hosted services — three failure modes, three corresponding detectors
  The Hermes dashboard wedge on 2026-07-05 surfaced a structural pattern that no single atom captures: **a long-running local service has at least three orthogonal failure modes, and no single detector catches all three.** A supervisor catches one. A watchdog catches a second. A forensic capture catches the third. The triad is the minimum viable operational discipline for any self-hosted service you actually depend on. Skipping any layer is a known-recurrence failure waiting for the next wedge.

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• concept2026-07-05 · refreshed 2026-07-28
  The "yes, also" loader — when Nathan's confirmation is the table-stakes and the conjunction is the disposition
  On 2026-07-05, after the assistant proposed a `kill -9` + restart to fix the wedged Hermes dashboard at `http://100.82.185.34:9119`, Nathan's reply was eleven

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• concept2026-07-27
  2026 07 27 V0 26 Dispatch Status
  **Opencode loop on macstudio is running.** PID 83066, session `ses_05cdda166ffe7L0MHOnTdF3pXz`, model `google/antigravity-claude-sonnet-4-6`.

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• concept2026-07-27
  2026 07 27 V06 V26 Combined Greenlight
  **Decisions for `Docs/V0.6_MASCOT_ENGINE_SPEC.md` (5 open questions) and `concepts/2026-07-27-games-room-v0-26-spec.md` (V0.26 new surfaces).

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• concept2026-07-27
  2026 07 27 Games Room V0 26 Spec
  **Profile-aware spec addendum.
• concept2026-07-27
  2026 07 27 Games Room Profile Aware Social Design
  **Premise**: Games Room is a product whose *purpose* is to enable socialising, authentically, among a small group of friends-of-friends at in-person games nights. The product is the host's iPad dashboard plus the members' iPhone views plus the joined-up ledger that gives the season its arc. The masked-autistic / 2e / active-but-odd profile documented in [[people/nathan-maxwell]] and [[concepts/2026-07-27-tars-nathan-working-partnership-playbook]] predicts specific failure modes in this product — and specific *opportunities* to make it work for the larger population of people who share the profile and don't know it.

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• concept2026-07-27
  2026 07 27 Tars Nathan Working Partnership Playbook
  Synthesized 2026-07-27 from five parallel research streams (AQ, EQ,

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• concept2026-07-27
  2026 07 27 Aq Eq Srs2 Calibration
  Nathan shared three filled-in screening forms on 2026-07-27.

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