In Praise of Confusion
What if the pursuit of clarity is its own distortion? John Fowles and the practice of productive disorientation.
awakening-alignment
Blessing the Whole Mess
When the world breaks into pieces, one response is to bless it anyway—not as denial, but as defiance. A poem that works as spell.
The Cost of Performed Coherence
Masking works—until it doesn't. The gap between who you are and who you perform accumulates interest, and the debt comes due as collapse.
When Work and Life Stop Being Separate
What if the boundary between creative work and lived experience isn't something to balance, but a fiction to release?
What We Practice Seeing
Attention isn't a resource to manage—it's a discipline that shapes what becomes visible. What changes when we stop optimizing it and start cultivating it?
Wonder as Attention Practice
Sleeplessness reframed: not a problem to solve but an invitation to train attention toward what's genuinely awe-inducing. Wonder as practice, not distraction.
Whose Alignment Wins?
AI helped someone cut a $195k hospital bill to $33k. Same day, Amazon laid off 14,000 workers to fund AI. The tool is the same. The question is whose flourishing it serves.