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Do the Ends Justify the Means?
How outcomes inherit the choices that create them
Nov 17 • 
Michael S. Rollain
Meaning in Motion
On coherence, orientation, and the navigational logic of monotropic recursion
Nov 10 • 
Michael S. Rollain
A Place to Stand
On learning, alignment, and growing into your own mind
Nov 3 • 
Michael S. Rollain

October 2025

Mailbox
A poem about repair
Oct 31 • 
Michael S. Rollain
The Simplicity of Integrity
How complexity becomes the camouflage of moral failure
Oct 29 • 
Michael S. Rollain
Buried in Design
On structural harm and the illusion of safety
Oct 25 • 
Michael S. Rollain
What Lies Beneath
On beginnings, imposter syndrome, and moving forward
Oct 21 • 
Michael S. Rollain
Unmoored from Meaning
On the architecture of intelligence and the danger of mistaking speed for understanding
Oct 19 • 
Michael S. Rollain
The Cost of Closure
On OCD, masking recursion, and a world afraid of its own mind
Oct 15 • 
Michael S. Rollain
The Shape of Trauma, Part III: Navigation
What healing looks like when trauma isn’t something to fix
Oct 12 • 
Michael S. Rollain
The Shape of Discomfort
How coherence becomes cruelty when comfort defines care
Oct 10 • 
Michael S. Rollain
The Shape of Trauma, Part II: Proxies
How therapy confuses symptoms for the field
Oct 8 • 
Michael S. Rollain
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