The Machine You Work Inside
Your exhaustion isn't a personal failure. It's the predictable output of a workplace designed in the 1880s for machines — and never redesigned for the human inside one.
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Familiarity Beats Cleverness
A custom format designed to save tokens consumed 738% more of them at scale. The lesson isn't about YAML — it's about what happens when you optimize against the grain of the substrate.
Skills as Composable Units
The Taste Artifact
The Taste Artifact
Liberating Trapped Data
The Usability Inflection Point for Sandboxing
The Transcript as Work Product
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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
rest-rhythm
The Machine You Work Inside
Your exhaustion isn't a personal failure. It's the predictable output of a workplace designed in the 1880s for machines — and never redesigned for the human inside one.
Community as Infrastructure
The 32-Year Mirror
The Exhausting Conversation
The Rest You Can't Retreat Into
The Rest You Can't Retreat Into
The Exhausting Conversation
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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
