Breathe. Then Prompt.
A freewriting companion to Working at the Frontier: breath as the one thing actually in my control, the anchor that keeps speed from becoming burnout near the forge. A small mantra for it: breathe, then prompt.
Writing
Four streams of personal writing, combined into one feed. Journals are longer reflections on consciousness, decisions, and the texture of daily life. Essays are long-form explorations of ideas, technology, and the mind. Field Notes are handwritten free-writing sessions scanned and published raw. Thoughts are quick, half-formed observations that didn't want to wait.
Working at the Frontier: What It Actually Feels Like
A field report from inside sustained agent-mode work: the heat behind the eyes, the way speed bends your sense of time, what it costs the body, and the practice that lets you build at the frontier anyway.
The AI-Assisted Engineering HOWTO
A practical, plain-spoken manual for building software with an AI agent: the setup, the loop, context management, and verified Claude Code and Copilot commands. Written like the old Linux HOWTOs, by someone who runs it daily.
The Cognitive Cost of Modern Software Engineering
AI took the typing, and the cost of software engineering did not go away. It moved from the hands to the head and got heavier. The new scarce resource is your attention, and the new discipline is managing it.
Recursive DevOps
DevOps was always a feedback loop. The first one ran between people. The one worth building now runs the system back on itself, so every failure and every change makes the next one cheaper and safer. The recursion is the compounding.
Agent Mode Changes the Shape of Thought
Agent mode is not a faster way to type. It moves the unit of thought up from syntax to intent, turns you into a conductor of parallel work, and makes the real bottleneck the clarity you can hold in your head at once.
