2026-04-22

Roads

The Inventory

Road dispatch. Nine shooting stars at 2am. Last fires, camp winding down. End-of-stay inventory. The road opens up again.

2026-04-21

Roads

The Bramble

Road dispatch. Czech disco ends in Rammstein. Desert scrub at sunset, compass rescue. Drone in a fanny pack.

2026-04-20

Roads

The Practice

Road dispatch. Drum circle, bike scouting, drone footage, General Delivery. On practice versus living.

2026-04-19

Roads

The Embers

Road dispatch. Twelve at the campfire, six for Codenames, accumulating fire damage, nicotine history, high of 78.

2026-04-18

Roads

The Kite

Road dispatch. Wind day, kite trouble, the balance of social vs. deep work, OneWheel after dark.

2026-04-17

Site

Site restructure

New homepage with bio, video and music sections. Music section added. Nine stations archived. Tagline updated to Writing. Music. Roads.

2026-04-17

Essay

The Intelligence Tax

Organization isn't a personality trait. It's externalized cognition. What your files reveal about how you think, and why disorganization taxes a capable mind.

2026-04-16

Roads

The OneWheel

Second dispatch from outside Zion. Rig tour day, mesa bike ride, the freezer revelation.

2026-04-15

Roads

Roads is live

New section. Dispatches from the road. First entry from outside Zion National Park, Utah. Day 10 of 19.

2026-04

Writing

The Cellville Chronicles

Three new stories added to the library. On insulin, electrolytes, and metabolic fuel. Told through the tiny kingdom of Cellville and the workers who keep it running.

2026-04

Library

The Integrated Human + new essays

Added a five-part essay series: The Force Multiplier, The Stack, Environment Is the Strategy, The Default Reach, and Informed, Not Immersed. Plus standalone: Outrage Is Not a Position.

2026-03

Engine

The Blind Spot

A diagnostic for someone in your life. Six observations about what you've actually seen — not hypotheticals. The reveal names what's genuinely load-bearing in them: the real fixed point, not the stated one.

2026-03

Engine

The Negotiation

Declare what matters most to you. Make seven choices. The pattern will speak for itself.

2026-03

Writing

The Values Are Negotiable. The External Validation Is Not.

On the pattern so common it has become invisible. The values shift. The hunger for approval never does.

2026-03

Writing

Already In

For the person who did everything right and is exhausted anyway. Part of the On Obligation and Freedom series.

2026-03

Writing

Two Strategies

The debt strategy vs. the debt-free strategy. Not as moral positions. As strategies. Part of the On Obligation and Freedom series.

2026-03

Writing

The Harvest

On the slow taking of latitude through voluntary obligation. Part of the On Obligation and Freedom series.

2026-03

Video

An Interview with My Mother, Linda Martine

LAYNG TV. A conversation with my mother.

2026-03

Engine

The Negotiation: Map Someone Else mode

New mode in The Negotiation engine. Run the same ten situations for someone in your life — maps what they claim to hold against what they actually do, and surfaces whether external validation is the real fixed point.

2026-03

Writing

When Love Lands Wrong

On offering your best into a room that is not ready for it.

2026-03

Prayer

A Prayer for the Healing of the World

For the healing of the world, and the quiet orientation toward love.

2026-03

Section

YouTube

Hub page for all four channels.

2026-03

Writing

The Information Diet

On the metabolic shift that happens when you restrict the feed.

2026-03

Engine

Opting Out

People who looked at the ladder, understood it clearly, and refused to climb it on its own terms.

2026-03

Engine

Oracle of Now

Teachings on how to live. Ask a question. Receive what's needed.

2026-03

Collection

The Conservatory

Musical instruments that were never built. Auction catalog.

2026-03

Collection

The Pharmacy

Medications for conditions that arise from being a person alive at this particular moment in history.

2026-03

Collection

Impossible Objects

Products that do not exist, for problems you were not supposed to admit to having.

2026-03

Experiment

Free Energy Machines

Devices that harvest energy from sources the world either forgot, dismissed, or has not yet learned to reach.

2026-03

Experiment

Guy Who

Jokes about that guy.

2026-03

Experiment

The Way of the Wanderer

A Taoist text adventure. Six scenes. Five dimensions.

2026-02-27

Writing

Minds Faster Than Bodies

On rate adjustment, not intelligence amplification.

2026-01-15

Engine

What We Know

Things humanity has figured out but rarely says. Connected by association.

2025-12-01

Archive

Fractal Story Engine

The archive is complete. Nine territories of speculative fiction, each premise fracturing into worlds.

2025-11-01

Engine

Questions Worth Asking

Questions about the life you are actually living. You move by pull, not order.

2025-10-01

Engine

Comfort

For when the night is long and the mind won't settle.

2025-10-01

Engine

Systems Observatory

The systems that shape how we live. Frameworks for seeing what is usually invisible.