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There are more than a hundred essays here, newest-first at Posts. That’s a hard place to begin. So here’s a shorter way in: a handful per theme, each with a line on why I’d point you to it.

Thinking & writing

• The Two Epistemic Cycles — the two Latin mottos behind this whole project: think, learn, connect, declare; then perceive, connect, effect.
• Uncompressed Public Thinking — why I think out loud at all, and what we lost when public thought got optimized.
• Montaigne’s Essay Method — the method most of these essays follow: self as instrument, inquiry as the destination.

AI & cognition

• Intent-First Development — the abstraction layer is moving from code to intent; we write what we mean and agents compile it.
• New Metaphors for AI and Cognition — past amplification, toward co-regulation: exoskeletons and cognitive compilers.

Civilizational drift

• Civilizational Collapse and Knowledge Transfer — civilizations matter less for surviving than for what they carry across the break.
• The Cassandra Inversion — when every voice is urgent, real warnings become indistinguishable from manufactured ones.

Identity & ethics

• Leaning Against Your Nature — self-knowledge matters as a prerequisite for counterpressure, not for going with the grain.
• Three Positions on Existence — affirmation, negation, suspension, and what each one costs.

Poetry & story

• Bare Feet on Snow — a poem: four seasons of wordless communion between body and earth.
• Old Man by the River — a short story about a father, a son, and a morning of fishing.
• Kalbeth of the Orbital Authority — Macbeth retold in an interplanetary empire, predictive AIs in place of the witches.

The small crafts of attention

• Chemex Brewing Guide — coffee, measured: pour timing and roast-specific adjustments for a clean cup.
• Mise en Place for Knowledge Workers — kitchen discipline carried to the desk.

Or just go to Posts and start with whatever title pulls at you.