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Do the Ends Justify the Means?

How outcomes inherit the choices that create them
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Meaning in Motion
On coherence, orientation, and the navigational logic of monotropic recursion
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A Place to Stand
On learning, alignment, and growing into your own mind
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Mailbox
A poem about repair
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The Simplicity of Integrity
How complexity becomes the camouflage of moral failure
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Buried in Design
On structural harm and the illusion of safety
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What Lies Beneath
On beginnings, imposter syndrome, and moving forward
Oct 21 • 
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Unmoored from Meaning
On the architecture of intelligence and the danger of mistaking speed for understanding
Oct 19 • 
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The Cost of Closure
On OCD, masking recursion, and a world afraid of its own mind
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The Shape of Trauma, Part III: Navigation
What healing looks like when trauma isn’t something to fix
Oct 12 • 
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