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Themes
These collections organize essays by the threads that connect them. Each theme is a lens, not a boundary. Most essays belong to more than one.
Critique & Resistance
- The Algorithm Eats — How engagement optimization systematically devours virtue, language, love, democracy, reality, and time.
- Pattern Recognition & Manipulation — From surviving narcissistic abuse to recognizing the same techniques at civilizational scale.
Mind & Health
- Mental Health & Technology — Living openly with schizoaffective disorder. Technology as both threat and accessibility device.
- Psychology & Consciousness — What different mind architectures reveal about how consciousness actually works.
Technology & Design
- The "For Humans" Philosophy — The design principle behind Requests, applied to everything from marriage to AI collaboration.
- Open Source & Community — Building technology that serves everyone, and the community failures that happen when we don't.
- Artificial Intelligence — Human-AI collaboration, digital consciousness, and what happens when you treat AI as a thinking partner.
Meaning & Practice
- Consciousness & AI — The philosophical framework: consciousness as linguistic phenomenon, substrate independence, and what it means.
- Spiritual Practice & Technology — Programming as contemplation. Code as meditation. Debugging as self-inquiry.
- Evolution of Ideas — Fifteen years from urllib2 frustration to consciousness research. How the ideas connect.