Field Notes

Notes from the wandering mind of a narrative alchemist.

Thoughts feel solid until you try to write them down. That's when you notice the gaps. The places where the logic doesn't actually connect. The story you've been telling yourself read more

The Illusion of Control We convince ourselves that we are in control. We believe that if we just try harder, read the right book, or adopt the right habit, we read more

testing Drafts I'm testing the Drafts app as an editor for my omg.lol weblog. read more

I finally got around to watching Pluribus. I still have a two episodes to go until the season finale. I'm curios to see how this ends. read more

The Workflow Is the Work I spent the better part of a Friday evening trying to get Claude to post directly to my weblog. The goal was simple: write something read more

Goethe said it plainly: "Do not hurry; Do not rest." this is a description of how reality actually transforms. change doesn't happen in dramatic leaps. it happens in steady accumulation. read more

I've been working my way through Peter Carroll's Liber Null and Psychonaut. These texts sit at the foundations of chaos magic, and they don't disappoint. I've been listening to them read more

The Cost of Avoidance Most self-help literature fails because it is obsessed with the fruit (the visible results, the happiness, the money, the love) while ignoring the roots. It tries read more

Reading Damian Osborne's long meditation on Nigredo It's a descent story, but not in the tragic sense. More like the alchemist's first step into the unknown: the breakdown before the read more

The Weight of a Soul: The Ultimate Ancient Egyptian Polygraph Test Picture this for a second. You’ve just died in ancient Egypt. It’s not the peaceful drift into a quiet, read more

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