Spiritual
14 June 2026
1 min read
90% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 90% human, 10% AI on this one.
In meditation, momentum is everything — not gripping the calm, but being willing to return to it again and again. And a different attitude to the mind: investigating why sadness or craving arises at all, until the mind's play loosens its grip.
Notes for my daughter
14 June 2026
1 min read
85% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 85% human, 15% AI on this one.
When a child melts down, it feels like they're giving you a hard time — but really they're having one, caught in a storm their nervous system can't yet hold. Seeing that lets you lower your voice and simply stay. And the same is true of every difficult adult.
Technical
29 May 2026
4 min read
65% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 65% human, 35% AI on this one.
With AI, supposedly one prompt makes a polished UI. The way I actually do it is 400 prompts, late nights after my daughter sleeps, two-word stretches between her interruptions. When someone says it was *just AI*, they miss what is actually happening. Writing code is cheap now — the cost of trying an idea collapsed, and work I never would have shipped comes back in reach. The bottleneck moves to taste — also the part AI cannot do, because the genuinely new isn't in its data yet.
Spiritual
24 May 2026
1 min read
75% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 75% human, 25% AI on this one.
A phrase from a Vipassana book I found at a used bookstore — "the feeling of unworthiness" — and how much of what people do, the pleasing and the masks and the drama, runs on it.
Notes for my daughter
24 May 2026
1 min read
75% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 75% human, 25% AI on this one.
The most important thing I could pass on isn't technology or knowledge or even morality — it's the ability to manage your own mind: to stay quiet in chaos, to guard against jealousy and anxiety becoming habits, and the honest catch that I can't give it without having it first.
Technical
21 May 2026
3 min read
60% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 60% human, 40% AI on this one.
The Rigveda's river hymn looks like it lists rivers in geographic order. Scholars said so for 150 years but never measured it. I did — and ran the same test on four more old lists. The Indian ones follow the map; the Zoroastrian Avesta and Genesis don't, or not simply. What a list is for seems to matter more than its language or its century.
Spiritual
20 May 2026
1 min read
85% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 85% human, 15% AI on this one.
A short take on the Vedic birth chart: read it backward, not as a forecast but as a record of the tendencies a person arrived with — the specification of a being fused from several streams of consciousness. The full argument is in the linked paper.
Spiritual
20 May 2026
2 min read
85% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 85% human, 15% AI on this one.
A strong memory for your own conclusions can quietly block fresh thinking — the mind says "I already know this" before it has looked again. Weak retention and the ability to re-derive may be two sides of one coin, and a way, too, of re-reading a difficult Mercury.
Technical
14 May 2026
10 min read
90% human written
Authorship mix
Honest estimate of who wrote what. The green bar is my human-written share — drafting, editing, structure, voice. The red stripes are AI's share — synthesis, scaffolding, first drafts. 90% human, 10% AI on this one.
Kumar asked me what an AI agent costs to run. I didn't know. This is the story of how that question turned into a calculator, a paper, and a book — because the answer needed to work for the next team to ask, not just his.