Research notes for people who like systems too much.
Cyberyoga, behavioral design, neuroplasticity, social systems, product postmortems, and strange tools. The common thread is translating messy human experience into models you can reason about.
Cyberyoga
A deconstruction of contemplative traditions through neurobiology, cybernetics, predictive processing, information theory, and systems architecture.
Browse the full sequenceThe Four Noble Truths: A Systemic Diagnostic
Buddhist diagnosis translated into predictive processing, free energy, craving loops, and nervous-system architecture.
Patanjali’s Architecture
Yoga Sutras read as a technical manual for neural quiescence and cessation of predictive noise.
Meditation and the Default Mode Network
Shamatha, Vipassana, and Dzogchen mapped onto DMN deactivation, salience decoupling, and non-dual perception.
AI as Pure Prakriti
A strange mirror: what generative AI reveals about cognition, selfhood, intelligence, and the witness problem.
Network Ethics: Compassion as Global Optimization
Ethics reframed through multi-agent systems, systemic entropy, karma, and global optimization.
Behavior, bodies, societies, products, taste.
Behavior loops
Choice Architecture and Habit Formation
How defaults, friction, incentives, and self-nudging shape behavior more reliably than motivation.
Neuroplasticity
Biological Priming Protocol
A research-heavy map of physiological preparation for learning, adaptation, and neuroplastic change.
Society-scale systems
The Architecture of Societal Equilibrium
A speculative systems design for accountability, restoration, and social healing after large-scale harm.
Essay
The Art of Shut the Fuck Up
A funny but serious guide to timing, restraint, myth, overextension, and knowing when the signal is complete.
Product autopsy
What Happened to Random Coffee
Why random networking products fail, what was structurally wrong, and how higher-intent matching might work.