Current Projects 5
Hydrolyze — Swim Analysis Platform
active · impact 420
Felt Faction
active · impact 520
Parasym
planning · impact 130
gbrain omnipresence rollout
in-progress · impact 120
Games Room
active · impact 40
Current thinking 5
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.
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writing2026-07-28The previous casino pack design (V0.3 spec, 2026-07-12 architecture, V0.24 → V0.29 ship path) assumed the **host scans** every member's chip stack at the end of the night. The host's iPad became the central vision hub; the member's phone was a spectator.
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writing2026-07-05 · refreshed 2026-07-28The 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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atom2026-07-23 · refreshed 2026-07-24Operationalize the 'never fool yourself' rule by asking one question before any decision: 'Where's the weakest assumption in this?' If you can't identify it, you haven't thought hard enough. If you can identify it, you've found the exact place your reasoning is most likely to collapse and the place to stress-test before committing.
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atom2026-07-23 · refreshed 2026-07-24By locating the cause of behavior in subjective experience rather than external events, NLP effectively promotes the internal representation to the role of primary reality. This inverts the usual assumption that facts come first and feelings follow. For practitioners, it means the most durable interventions target the model a person holds of a situation, not the situation itself.
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atom2026-07-23 · refreshed 2026-07-24NLP rests on one deceptively simple premise: human behavior is driven not by objective reality but by subjective experience. If that's true, the implication is enormous—changing someone's inner representation of events changes their behavior, without changing the events themselves. Bandler and Grinder built an entire discipline of intervention around this single causal claim.
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atom2026-07-23 · refreshed 2026-07-24A nerve is a glistening white cordlike bundle of fibres, surrounded by a sheath, that connects the nervous system with other parts of the body. The description evokes something almost rope-like — not the abstract 'wiring' metaphor we usually default to. Treating nerves as visible, physical cords reframes how we think about nerve damage, regeneration, and the tangibility of the nervous system.
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atom2026-07-23 · refreshed 2026-07-24The reason children can pick up any human language is that unlearnable words have already been filtered out across generations. A language's learnability isn't a coincidence or a gift from designers — it's the sediment of countless small cullings. Difficulty in language learning reflects what survived the filter, not what was originally possible.
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atom2026-07-23 · refreshed 2026-07-24From Absalom and Alcibiades in antiquity to Cicero, Nero, and Stalin in later centuries, narcissistic leaders recur with striking consistency across civilizations. The pattern is too persistent to be coincidence, suggesting power either attracts narcissistic personalities or amplifies existing traits. Narcissistic leadership isn't a modern aberration — it's a recurring archetype of the powerful.