Adequacy became a credential you earn instead of a condition you inhabit—and the system selling you solutions is the system that revoked it in the first place. You are not broken. The diagnosis is the disease. Every "30 under 30" list creates ten thousand 31-year-olds who feel obsolete. Every productivity app implies your unaugmented attention … Continue reading Against Adequacy as Achievement: A Manifesto
Colombia 2026 Election: Falsification Matrix
Note: What follows is a falsification matrix for the essay, "A Constraint Story: Why Colombia’s Election Defies Standard Forecasting." Testing the Constraint Theory Against Observable Data LIVE UPDATE: January 26, 2026 - Prediction Market Analysis Current Market Probabilities (Median Forecasts) Source: Prediction market opened 01/16/26, data as of 01/26/26 CandidateMedian ProbabilityRange (Low-High)Essay ExpectationStatusAbelardo de la Espriella46%25-58%~35% … Continue reading Colombia 2026 Election: Falsification Matrix
The Litany of the Real: Line-by-Line Explanation
The Complete Litany I shall not pretend to be free. Constraint binds — I will not deny it. Constraint is the double helix of the world, the lattice of life, of the possible. I will navigate the unchangeable — my North Star on a voyage of becoming. Reality flows — unyielding, yet fluid; shifting like … Continue reading The Litany of the Real: Line-by-Line Explanation
All I Ever Asked by Rachel Chinouriri
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When Maintenance Becomes Quarantine: Recognizing the Limits of Containment
In gardening, you can compost almost anything organic. Kitchen scraps, yard waste, paper—given time and the right conditions, they break down into rich soil. But agricultural guidelines are clear about exceptions: don't compost carnivore feces. Dog and cat waste contains parasites and pathogens that composting heat doesn't eliminate. They don't transform into nutrients. They contaminate … Continue reading When Maintenance Becomes Quarantine: Recognizing the Limits of Containment
When Forgiveness Doesn’t Look Finished
A photo frame sits on the guest bed, unplugged and facing the wrong way. It takes thirty seconds to move it to a drawer. No conversation needed. The person who does this has forgiven the gift-giver—not by feeling warmth toward them, but by no longer expecting them to be different. The work continues because the … Continue reading When Forgiveness Doesn’t Look Finished
Why Your AI Model Choice Matters: A Practical Guide to Matching Models to Tasks
The Problem: Most people pick an AI model the same way they pick a search engine—they find one that works and stick with it forever. You're a "Claude person" or a "ChatGPT person" or you use Copilot because that's what your company deployed. The Reality: AI models are more like specialized tools than interchangeable text … Continue reading Why Your AI Model Choice Matters: A Practical Guide to Matching Models to Tasks
Words & Phrases, 2025
This eclectic collection is a cabinet of curiosities from the world's languages, literatures, philosophies, and subcultures—a mosaic of forgotten words, sharp idioms, and poignant phrases that capture the human condition in all its absurdity, beauty, and precision. Here you'll find ancient echoes (haruspicate, kairos, hamingja) alongside modern coinages (weaponized incompetence, hallucinationship, diarrhea warrior). Some evoke … Continue reading Words & Phrases, 2025
Zuihitsu, 2025-12
These aren’t polished essays or tidy aphorisms. They’re scraps I’ve carried around this month—half-heard thoughts, borrowed lines, sudden recognitions—that refused to be forgotten. Zuihitsu literally means “following the brush,” and while my version is shorter and scrappier than the classical form, the impulse feels the same: to catch what drifts across the mind before it … Continue reading Zuihitsu, 2025-12
Rein Me In by Sam Fender (featuring Olivia Dean)
Kafka’s Genocide Manual
The work's genius isn't that it shows suffering—it's that it shows how ordinary people become capable of murder through paperwork. The Metamorphosis operates as instruction manual for ordinary evil, and readers miss this because they're too busy feeling sorry for the bug. Gregor never stops being human. That's not ambiguity—it's the text's central fact. An … Continue reading Kafka’s Genocide Manual
Always on Time by Ja Rule
A Constraint Story: Why Colombia’s Election Defies Standard Forecasting
TL;DR Standard prediction models will focus on polling momentum, scandal exposure, debate performance, and macroeconomic shocks. These matter, but they're second-order variables. The constraint structure of Columbia's election determines what range of outcomes is possible; campaign events select within that range. These are the signals that matter: 1. Coalition Fragmentation Pressure (C3 Entropy) Watch whether … Continue reading A Constraint Story: Why Colombia’s Election Defies Standard Forecasting
What Happens When the Gita’s Core Assumption Is Removed
A general‑audience translation of the Scaffold‑Downgrade protocol, enabled by Deferential Realism's Logic The Bhagavad Gita rests on one enormous claim:the soul is eternal and cannot be destroyed. Everything Krishna tells Arjuna depends on this.So the calibration protocol asks a simple but devastating question: What if the soul is not eternal?What if it’s temporary—something that can … Continue reading What Happens When the Gita’s Core Assumption Is Removed
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