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Sense
Reasoning is expensive inference; sense is a trained model answering from its weights.
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A personal archive — where I keep what I've learned, lived, and want to remember. Reflections on life, work, and the questions that don't have tidy answers.
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Software Engineering Fatigue
Physics leads toward universal laws; frameworks often ask you to learn someone else’s chosen abstractions.
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Start New Behaviors in Boring, Easy Mode
Stop while you still want more — the unspent appetite is what pulls you back tomorrow.
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The Cost of Delayed Action
Delay doesn't preserve a task in amber — it lets the charge quietly leak out of it.
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The Heuristics for 'What To Do Now'
The three arrows of your compass all point toward discomfort — that's not a bug, that's the method.
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The Thinking and Doing Rhythm
One cycle of think-act teaches more than ten cycles of think-think-think.
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When Thinking Becomes the Excuse
Thinking is useful until it becomes a comfortable place to avoid the next action.
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Trust
Trust by default — because doubting everything is a load the mind simply cannot carry.
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A Rich, Consistent Vocabulary Is the Best API for Your Second Brain
Rename the endpoint and all the clients break — the same goes for the words in your second brain.