Lode Notes
High-density field guides for building systems that don't break when theirs do.
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We Taught Machines to Think Because We Forgot How
Somewhere between computation and convenience, we handed off the act of thinking, not because machines do it better, but because we stopped trying. We reach...
cognitive abdication
evolutionary drift
The Work That Tells the Truth
People are drowning in work that leaves no mark. Meetings pile up, inboxes fill like trash bins, and still—at day’s end—there’s no clear sense of...
identity Labor
meaning craft
A Hard System For Soft Things
You can have three hundred contacts in your phone and still not know who to call when your chest tightens at 2 a.m. Most people...
social capital
emotional leverage
The Man Who Loses on Purpose
Some men build their own fall. They shape it with care. The collapse is the goal. Success suffocates: it demands discipline, longevity, and sustained performance....
voluntary collapse
proximity risk
The Simple Life Is A Myth
The modern worker, especially those tethered to the digital slipstream, clings to a chronic ache—the desire to return to something simpler. You hear it in...
illusionary retreat
selective nostalgia
Alignment is Not Structure
The silent risk in the era of passive cognitive offloading is that people want fast answers, not epistemic discipline. Most large-scale AI systems are optimized...
epistemic design
cognitive sovereignty
The Sweet Trap of Shortcuts
There’s a bitter hunger in people, a gnawing urge to find the back door—the shortcut, the cheap high, the quick fix. The problem isn’t just...
friction design
attention economy
The Real Cost of Choosing
People delay because they don’t want to pay the actual price: shutting down their other possible lives. When you choose, you don’t just spend time....
identity scarcity
option closure
No Second Signal
Tension Most people repeat themselves to be taken seriously. They reword, follow up, hint, remind. Not because the message wasn’t clear—but because they don’t trust...
signal authority
message discipline
The Hollow Prize
There’s a quiet tragedy that rides alongside ambition: the belief that glory, fame, or recognition will grant us rest. People drag themselves across brutal landscapes—startups,...
recognition addiction
false summits