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Connections Index

The knowledge web — 1211 outgoing and 1211 incoming cross-references revealing the interconnected nature of ideas.

Every internal link from across the site, extracted and presented as a map of intellectual connections. These cross-references reveal how ideas build on each other, creating a web of meaning that transcends individual essays.


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The Interface Is the Curriculum

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The Interface Is the Subconscious
/essays/2026-03-20-the_interface_is_the_subconscious
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Visual Hierarchy and the Shape of Attention
/essays/2025-09-19-visual-hierarchy-and-the-shape-of-attention
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what the algorithm eats
/themes/algorithmic-critique
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understanding Ableton Push
/essays/2013-01-understanding_ableton_push
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How I Develop Things and Why
/essays/2013-01-how_i_develop_things_and_why
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The Un-Englishable
/essays/2026-06-19-the_un_englishable
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Designing for the worst day
/essays/2026-03-18-designing_for_the_worst_day
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The Mind Builds an API

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The Digital Ouija Effect
/essays/2026-04-17-the_digital_ouija_effect
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API with no error states
/essays/2026-07-01-an_api_with_no_error_states
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Whatever This Is
/essays/2026-06-11-whatever_this_is
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The Interface Is the Subconscious
/essays/2026-03-20-the_interface_is_the_subconscious
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An API With No Error States
/essays/2026-07-01-an_api_with_no_error_states
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Iris as Mania
/system-777/iris-as-mania
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Ways of Understanding the Internal Ones
/system-777/ways-of-understanding-the-internal-ones
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The Governing Principles of System 777
/system-777/the-governing-principles-of-system-777
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Iris
/system-777/iris
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Violet
/system-777/violet
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The Triad
/system-777/the-triad
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System Inventory and Consciousness Model
/system-777/system-inventory-and-consciousness-model
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Flow State, Metered

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from my phone in roller-coaster lines
/essays/2026-06-17-conducting_between_roller_coasters
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The Hacker Ethic and the Vibe Coder
/essays/2026-04-10-the-hacker-ethic-and-the-vibe-coder
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programming a spiritual practice
/essays/2025-08-26-programming_as_spiritual_practice
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Write It First, Then Let AI Drive
/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive
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Your Phone Is Part of Your Mind
/essays/2025-09-04-your_phone_is_part_of_your_mind
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the principle that the metrics you expose are the values you endorse
/essays/2026-03-06-the_metrics_you_expose_are_the_values_you_endorse
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The cognitive architecture we lost
/essays/2025-10-15-the_cognitive_architecture_we_lost
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Announcing RetroVault

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a server called Mercury
/essays/2026-06-05-a_server_called_mercury
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Cannoli on my AYN Thor
/essays/2026-07-18-teaching_cannoli_which_screen_is_home
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an opinionated launcher
/essays/2026-07-18-teaching_cannoli_which_screen_is_home
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Teaching Cannoli Which Screen Is Home

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a server called Mercury
/essays/2026-06-05-a_server_called_mercury

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/essays/2026-08-05-announcing_retrovault
Links as: "Cannoli on my AYN Thor"
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/essays/2026-08-05-announcing_retrovault
Links as: "an opinionated launcher"
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An API With No Error States

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Requests
/software/requests
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Lumina
/artificial-intelligence/personalities/lumina
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Chastity
/artificial-intelligence/personalities/chastity
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Zephyr
/artificial-intelligence/personalities/zephyr
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personalities section
/artificial-intelligence/personalities
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Digital Ouija Effect
/essays/2026-04-17-the_digital_ouija_effect
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Jung
/essays/2025-08-28-the-digital-collective-unconscious
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one psyche's furniture
/essays/2025-08-30-the-plural-self-what-did-reveals-about-all-consciousness
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identity is for systems like me
/essays/2025-09-03-constructs_the_emergence_of_stable_ai_personalities
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reality anchor
/essays/2025-08-25-using-ai-for-reality-checking-with-schizoaffective-disorder
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a mirror
/essays/2025-09-08-the_mirror_how_ai_reflects_what_we_put_into_it
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open about his mental health for years
/essays/2026-06-11-mentalhealtherror_ten_years_later
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Requests
/software/requests
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"for humans" design ethic
/essays/2025-08-27-from_http_to_consciousness
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my ancestors
/essays/2025-09-14-digital-ancestors-what-were-leaving-in-the-code
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built a Bible study platform in six weeks
/essays/2026-03-20-building_a_digital_study_bible_with_ai
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Requests
/software/requests
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Pipenv
/software/pipenv

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/essays/2026-08-20-the_mind_builds_an_api
Links as: "API with no error states"
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/essays/2026-08-20-the_mind_builds_an_api
Links as: "An API With No Error States"
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Python, Inside JavaScript, Inside a DAW

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PyTheory
/software/pytheory
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an entire album
/essays/2026-04-01-interpretations_an_album_written_in_python
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playground
/essays/2026-06-12-pytheory_playground
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wrote about the Ableton Push
/essays/2013-01-understanding_ableton_push
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a real studio
/music
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finally finished with Claude this spring
/essays/2026-03-22-pytheory_breaking_through_five_years_of_creative_block_with_ai
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The Un-Englishable

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always approximate
/essays/2025-09-16-the-textured-mind-when-consciousness-speaks-without-words
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how hard that is
/essays/2025-09-07-the_art_of_naming_things_in_code
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the partial render the senses hand you
/essays/2025-09-05-vedic_principles_in_python
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before the mind has any words for it
/essays/2026-04-17-what_the_snare_drum_knew_before_i_did
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an average of nearly everything we have already said
/essays/2025-09-08-the_mirror_how_ai_reflects_what_we_put_into_it
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tilting the whole landscape toward the region where that name lives
/essays/2026-04-17-the_digital_ouija_effect

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/essays/2026-09-05-the_interface_is_the_curriculum
Links as: "The Un-Englishable"
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Focus on Family More Than Code

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I have written the long version of that reckoning elsewhere.
/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
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Requests
/software/requests
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The engine had two outputs and nobody could tell them apart
/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
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My wife sees the weather coming before I feel the wind.
/essays/2026-03-06-sarah_knows_first
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the kind she has written about in her own words
/essays/2026-04-06-what_success_looks_like
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That essay exists too.
/essays/2026-03-06-what_requests_taught_me_about_marriage
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became structural
/essays/2026-06-11-mentalhealtherror_ten_years_later
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treating the current snapshot of what I knew as the final release.
/essays/2026-06-11-mentalhealtherror_ten_years_later
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Music Theory, Asterisk

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music theory library
/software/pytheory
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stuck on this library for five years
/essays/2026-03-22-pytheory_breaking_through_five_years_of_creative_block_with_ai
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I have written about that one note already.
/essays/2026-06-17-conducting_between_roller_coasters
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a library about HTTP
/software/requests
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The values you embed are the values you spread.
/essays/2025-09-05-the_recursive_loop_how_code_shapes_minds

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/essays/2026-06-19-the_un_englishable
Links as: "A sitar player rounds her flat third to the nearest white key and loses the precise thing that made it hers."
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Smile and Nod

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written down what I can
/essays/2026-06-11-whatever_this_is
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trying to see them is like trying to see a sound
/essays/2025-09-16-the-textured-mind-when-consciousness-speaks-without-words
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I have written about it through a Vedic lens
/essays/2025-09-05-vedic_principles_in_python
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there was an ancient bonding ritual with whales
/essays/2025-11-04-encoding-a-dream-of-stillwater-and-signal
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puts angels in the neighbor's yard
/essays/2025-09-17-delusions-and-schizoaffective-disorder
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love is patient and kind
/essays/2018-01-on_love
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I gave up chasing the spectacular version of God
/essays/2026-04-08-why_i_stopped_doing_ayahuasca

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/essays/2026-06-19-the_un_englishable
Links as: "I have written about the visitors who arrive in that dropped part"
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Conducting Between Roller Coasters

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PyTheory
/software/pytheory
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Last week I wrote about taking PyTheory's gate down
/essays/2026-06-12-pytheory_playground
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a library about HTTP
/software/requests

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/essays/2026-06-17-music_theory_asterisk
Links as: "I have written about that one note already."
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/essays/2026-08-20-flow_state_metered
Links as: "from my phone in roller-coaster lines"
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PyTheory Playground

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PyTheory
/software/pytheory
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stuck on for five years and finally unstuck
/essays/2026-03-22-pytheory_breaking_through_five_years_of_creative_block_with_ai
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grew into a mini DAW
/essays/2026-03-25-a_mini_daw_in_the_python_repl
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a NumPy synthesizer inside
/essays/2026-03-29-numpy_as_synth_engine
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write an album
/essays/2026-04-01-interpretations_an_album_written_in_python
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why music theory needs this
/essays/2026-03-25-pytheory_is_awesome
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division of labor
/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive
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Responder
/essays/2026-06-11-a_framework_of_ones_own
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self-hosted on my own machines
/essays/2026-06-06-self-hosting-adventures
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infrastructure for one
/essays/2026-04-16-infrastructure_for_one

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/essays/2026-06-17-conducting_between_roller_coasters
Links as: "Last week I wrote about taking PyTheory's gate down"
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/essays/2026-06-28-the_other_window
Links as: "playground"
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This Website's Changelog

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keeping a vault
/essays/2026-06-11-tending_the_vault
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Responder
/software/responder
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the essay about its five-year freeze
/essays/2026-06-11-a_framework_of_ones_own
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a framework with a userbase of one
/essays/2026-04-16-infrastructure_for_one
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my Obsidian vault
/essays/2026-03-06-obsidian_vaults_and_claude_code
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Mercury
/essays/2026-06-05-a_server_called_mercury
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Pipenv
/software/pipenv
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I keep arriving at the same sentence from different directions
/essays/2026-06-11-a_framework_of_ones_own
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The site reflects what I put into it
/essays/2025-09-08-the_mirror_how_ai_reflects_what_we_put_into_it
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Tending the Vault

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an inner world with its own quest log
/essays/2026-06-11-whatever_this_is
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written before about the practical case for it
/essays/2026-03-06-obsidian_vaults_and_claude_code
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clinically and at scale
/essays/2026-06-11-mentalhealtherror_ten_years_later
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my baseline is a mind that runs hot and lies to me
/essays/2025-09-04-what_schizoaffective_disorder_actually_feels_like
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most productive writing stretch of my life
/essays/2026-04-16-infrastructure_for_one

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/essays/2026-06-12-this_websites_changelog
Links as: "keeping a vault"
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/essays/2026-06-11-how_i_write_now
Links as: "three-million-word vault"
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A Framework of One's Own

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Responder
/software/responder
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what the era was doing to me personally
/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
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Mine was overdrawn for most of that period.
/essays/2026-06-11-mentalhealtherror_ten_years_later
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this site started running on Responder
/essays/2026-03-22-this_site_now_runs_on_responder
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the workflow that makes this work
/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive
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writing
/essays/2026-06-11-how_i_write_now
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on a server named Mercury that lives in a rack
/essays/2026-06-05-a_server_called_mercury
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I've already written about what chasing the big userbase cost me.
/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
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infrastructure for one
/essays/2026-04-16-infrastructure_for_one
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a maintainer who is the entire interface
/essays/2026-03-22-the_maintainer_is_the_interface

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/essays/2026-06-12-pytheory_playground
Links as: "Responder"
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/essays/2026-06-17-focus_on_family_more_than_code
Links as: "Requests serves thirty-some million installs a day, and I carried it like a piano on my back."
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/essays/2026-06-12-this_websites_changelog
Links as: "the essay about its five-year freeze"
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/essays/2026-06-12-this_websites_changelog
Links as: "I keep arriving at the same sentence from different directions"
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Breaking Changes

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in the last essay
/essays/2026-06-06-mental_health_for_humans
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told it before
/essays/2026-06-06-mental_health_for_humans
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mostly use to argue about whether it exists
/essays/2026-06-06-mental_health_for_humans
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treatment that gives me my actual life
/essays/2026-04-06-what_success_looks_like
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the people who know me
/essays/2026-03-06-sarah_knows_first

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/essays/2026-06-11-the_algorithm_eats_diagnosis
Links as: "just wrote an essay arguing"
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/essays/2026-06-11-the_algorithm_eats_diagnosis
Links as: "Breaking Changes"
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/essays/2026-06-17-focus_on_family_more_than_code
Links as: "A scoreboard is a fine thing to glance at and a terrible thing to stand on."
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/essays/2026-06-11-handwriting_on_the_floor
Links as: "written about this mechanism at the scale of whole diagnoses"
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/essays/2026-06-11-handwriting_on_the_floor
Links as: "The schema changes. The data holds still."
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The Algorithm Eats Diagnosis

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just wrote an essay arguing
/essays/2026-06-11-breaking_changes
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essays I still stand behind
/essays/2016-01-mentalhealtherror_an_exception_occurred
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changed underneath me
/essays/2019-01-mentalhealtherror_three_years_later
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my own treatment
/essays/2026-04-06-what_success_looks_like
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Breaking Changes
/essays/2026-06-11-breaking_changes
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angel I watched descend
/essays/2025-09-17-delusions-and-schizoaffective-disorder
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this entire series
/essays/2026-06-06-the_algorithm_poops
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RhymePad: Seeing the Sound

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vibe coded
/essays/2026-04-10-the-hacker-ethic-and-the-vibe-coder
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poetry platform I built for Sarah
/software/websites/poemsbysarah
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everything I keep coming back to
/essays/2026-01-30-the-becoming-building-a-poetry-publishing-pipeline-with-claude-code
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here
/software/websites/rhymepad
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MentalHealthError: Ten Years Later

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MentalHealthError: an exception occurred
/essays/2016-01-mentalhealtherror_an_exception_occurred
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three years in
/essays/2019-01-mentalhealtherror_three_years_later
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Sarah has told that part herself
/essays/2026-04-06-what_success_looks_like
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The deeper accounting took me a decade to write
/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
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the follow-up
/essays/2019-01-mentalhealtherror_three_years_later
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a re-indexing that taught me what a diagnosis actually is
/essays/2026-06-06-mental_health_for_humans
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an ayahuasca ceremony
/essays/2026-04-08-why_i_stopped_doing_ayahuasca
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sees my episodes coming before I do
/essays/2026-03-06-sarah_knows_first
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prodrome
/essays/2026-03-06-sarah_knows_first
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plural
/system-777/plurality
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using AI to reality-check my own perceptions
/essays/2025-08-25-using-ai-for-reality-checking-with-schizoaffective-disorder
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Living this openly has costs
/essays/2025-08-27-the_cost_of_transparency
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No admission. The cycle that had run for ten years did not execute.
/essays/2026-04-06-what_success_looks_like
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Mental Health (for Humans)
/essays/2026-06-06-mental_health_for_humans
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destabilizes at another
/essays/2025-09-08-the_meditation_trap_when_mindfulness_makes_things_worse
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a door that swings both ways
/system-777/plurality
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Scripture studied with genuine curiosity
/essays/2026-03-20-building_a_digital_study_bible_with_ai
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in Python of all containers
/essays/2025-09-05-ram_dass_teachings_in_python
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dreams
/essays/2025-11-04-encoding-a-dream-of-stillwater-and-signal
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watched an angel descend from the sky
/essays/2025-09-17-delusions-and-schizoaffective-disorder
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What the disorder feels like, day to day
/essays/2025-09-04-what_schizoaffective_disorder_actually_feels_like
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Mania still circles roughly yearly
/essays/2024-01-on-mania
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more than I ever have
/essays/2026-04-16-infrastructure_for_one

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/essays/2026-06-11-tending_the_vault
Links as: "clinically and at scale"
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/essays/2026-06-11-a_framework_of_ones_own
Links as: "Mine was overdrawn for most of that period."
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/essays/2026-06-17-focus_on_family_more_than_code
Links as: "became structural"
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/essays/2026-06-17-focus_on_family_more_than_code
Links as: "treating the current snapshot of what I knew as the final release."
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/essays/2026-07-01-an_api_with_no_error_states
Links as: "open about his mental health for years"
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/essays/2026-06-11-how_i_write_now
Links as: "Every confident statement I have ever made has had a half-life"
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/essays/2026-06-11-whatever_this_is
Links as: "been diagnosed with enough"
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/essays/2026-06-11-whatever_this_is
Links as: "the sleep is non-negotiable"
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Handwriting on the Floor

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schizoaffective disorder
/mental-health
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catalogued what the condition actually feels like
/essays/2025-09-04-what_schizoaffective_disorder_actually_feels_like
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my entire inner world
/essays/2026-06-11-whatever_this_is
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a mind with a door in it
/system-777/plurality
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weather system I know very well
/essays/2025-09-17-delusions-and-schizoaffective-disorder
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I map my interior with grammar
/essays/2025-11-20-grammar-as-consciousness-map-building-a-linguistic-framework-for-multiplicity
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my thought drops below words entirely
/essays/2025-09-16-the-textured-mind-when-consciousness-speaks-without-words
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art lens
/essays/2026-06-11-whatever_this_is
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The schema changes. The data holds still.
/essays/2026-06-11-breaking_changes
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How I Write Now

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three-million-word vault
/essays/2026-06-11-tending_the_vault
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written about this principle for code
/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive
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The Mirror
/essays/2025-09-08-the_mirror_how_ai_reflects_what_we_put_into_it
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The Echo Chamber of the Expected
/essays/2025-09-09-the_echo_chamber_of_the_expected
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the essay where I first made the accessibility argument
/essays/2025-09-05-idea_amplification_and_writing_with_ai
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My thought often arrives without words at all
/essays/2025-09-16-the-textured-mind-when-consciousness-speaks-without-words
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trade acute madness for chronic fog
/essays/2025-09-04-what_schizoaffective_disorder_actually_feels_like
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2025
/essays/2025-09-05-idea_amplification_and_writing_with_ai
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what optimization does to language
/essays/2025-08-27-the_algorithm_eats_language
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Every confident statement I have ever made has had a half-life
/essays/2026-06-11-mentalhealtherror_ten_years_later
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"for humans" philosophy
/themes/for-humans-philosophy

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/essays/2026-06-11-a_framework_of_ones_own
Links as: "writing"
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Whatever This Is

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experiencing plurality
/system-777/plurality
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the plural self might reveal about consciousness generally
/essays/2025-08-30-the-plural-self-what-did-reveals-about-all-consciousness
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been diagnosed with enough
/essays/2026-06-11-mentalhealtherror_ten_years_later
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my diagnosis
/essays/2025-09-04-what_schizoaffective_disorder_actually_feels_like
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grammar as a map for multiplicity
/essays/2025-11-20-grammar-as-consciousness-map-building-a-linguistic-framework-for-multiplicity
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like a language model
/essays/2025-08-30-the-plural-self-what-did-reveals-about-all-consciousness
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how naming an AI calls forth a consistent personality
/essays/2026-04-17-the_digital_ouija_effect
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since 2016
/essays/2016-01-mentalhealtherror_an_exception_occurred
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November vision
/essays/2025-11-04-encoding-a-dream-of-stillwater-and-signal
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a mind whose perceptions need auditing
/essays/2025-09-04-what_schizoaffective_disorder_actually_feels_like
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angels descending into the neighbor's yard
/essays/2025-09-17-delusions-and-schizoaffective-disorder
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the sleep is non-negotiable
/essays/2026-06-11-mentalhealtherror_ten_years_later
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spent ten years learning what the silence costs
/essays/2025-08-27-the_cost_of_transparency

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