The Exhaustion Engine
AI was supposed to lighten the load. An 8-month study reveals it intensified the work instead — not through malice but through the quiet mechanics of a relationship without friction.
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Skills as Composable Units
Your expertise has a shape. A de facto standard is emerging for packaging agent capabilities—and it means you can solve problems once and carry them forward forever.
The Taste Artifact
The Taste Artifact
Liberating Trapped Data
The Usability Inflection Point for Sandboxing
The Transcript as Work Product
The Maintenance Threshold
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The Knowledge-Action Gap
Organizations can possess knowledge of a failure mode without generating the action to address it. Knowledge that lacks a pathway to power is knowledge that waits.
The Prestige Acquisition Trap
The Invisibility of What Works
The Seal That Stopped Sealing
The Seal That Stopped Sealing
The Documented Risk
The Slow Disaster as Dominant Form
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Community as Infrastructure
The potluck isn't a break from the work. It's the work in its quiet phase—building the network before you need it urgently.
The 32-Year Mirror
The Exhausting Conversation
The Rest You Can't Retreat Into
The Rest You Can't Retreat Into
The Exhausting Conversation
The Privatization of Recovery
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The Exhaustion Engine
AI was supposed to lighten the load. An 8-month study reveals it intensified the work instead — not through malice but through the quiet mechanics of a relationship without friction.
Desire Paths
The Relationship Layer
The Relationship Layer
The Advertiser in the Room
Calibrated Distrust as Craft
