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Culture

If AI Is Doing the Work, Who Owns the Upside?

If AI takes the labor, we either tax the winners harder or make everyone a shareholder.

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Personal Notes

The Laboratory: What I’m Actually Building

Four websites, a book, and a teaching studio that all do one thing — and what that thing is.

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Culture

The AI Revolution Isn’t Taking Your Job. It’s Giving You Another One.

AI feels like empowerment, but it’s quietly turning us into our own accountants, lawyers, and help desks — unpaid.

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Practice

A Decade of Practice, Almost No Data: Closing the Explanation Gap

I ran a values audit on my own practice and didn’t like the decade of obedience I couldn’t explain. So instead of writing a post about agency, I built the controls. This is that story — Agentic Ashtanga.

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Yoga Professionals

The $636 Rent Subsidy That Built My Yoga Career (And Won’t Build Yours)

How decades of below-market rent — not discipline or talent — quietly underwrote a yoga teaching career that’s no longer possible to build.

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Personal Notes

The Constraint Is Me

What it looks like to build a sustainable creative business when your own time is the bottleneck everything bends around.

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Practice

Waiting to Be Given the Next Pose: Reclaiming Authority Over My Practice

The method saved my body and my attention. The power structure around it nearly cost me both. I could have written a post about it. I built a platform instead.

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Practice

Performing the Practice vs. Reading It: Why Inheritance Isn’t Understanding

A student asked me why the closing sequence comes last, and I heard how much of what I knew was inheritance, not understanding. I could have written a post about it. Instead I built the map — 81 lessons, on a platform I own. The thing is the proof.

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Practice

Ten Years of Practice, No Idea Why: Building the System I Couldn’t Find

For years I mistook obedience for depth. The day I started reading my practice as a system instead of a set of instructions — and started instrumenting it like one — everything I’d called discipline turned out to be drift.

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Culture Science and Tech

MJH INC: Building a Personal Sovereign Internet

From chatrooms at thirteen to running a world in Ultima Online to building communities for companies — a life spent tending rooms online. Now I’m turning that instinct on my own data: pulling twenty years of my life off the platforms and onto ground I own, and building the habit of micro-journaling in my own garden instead of Meta’s.

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