Sovereignty Without Certainty

Greetings friends— who’s ready to roll into the new year sideways with me?

Note: I always have (always will) love my ellipses, em dashes, and parentheticals. With all due respect… AI can go f**k itself.

I’ve stopped trying to begin the year with a clean slate. Life doesn’t work that way, and neither do systems worth trusting. What I have instead are active runtime notes and actionable command lines—fragments gathered while the code is live, the soil still under my nails, the world still very much in motion. What follows isn’t a manifesto or a master plan, it’s a record of what’s been breaking, what’s been holding, and what I’ve been learning by keeping my hands to the earth while everything else accelerates. For Q1 2026, I wanted to share something exploratory for those who feel both called to stay engaged and quietly tempted to slow down without disappearing. If that's you, I hope you'll read on with an open mind and malleable heart. After all, these runtime notes are provisional by design. Written in motion, not hindsight.

Tight on time, or just ready to run?

Chances are you’re reading this carrying a familiar mix of gratitude, low-grade exhaustion, an over-indulgent haze, and the quiet pressure to make this year count. There's a particular texture just after the new year. A strange psychic weather system made of hope, fatigue, and a soft background hum of existential bookkeeping. Another year. Another lap around the sun. Another chance to pretend we know what’s going on. No small feat given that the sun is now sponsored by venture capital, algorithmic amplification, and the background radiation of an always-on apocalypse.

As a self-proclaimed "trust-junkie," I’ve learned not to trust that feeling... the one that props up resolutions and whispers, this year I’ll finally get it right. Not because it’s necessarily wrong, but because it tends to smuggle in a hidden assumption: that the problem is me. My discipline. My mindset. My failure to optimize. Heading into 2026, I’ve been sitting with a different possibility. What if the problem isn’t that we’re bad at being human... what if we’re just running outdated software?

And while I do love a good E.O. quote, what tipped me off to this wasn’t a headline or Pulitzer Prize winner. It was a deeper feeling… subtle at first. A persistent sense of being slightly ahead of myself—like my nervous system had been promoted to a role it never applied for. Not anxious exactly. Just perpetually braced. As if the baseline settings of the global treadmill had quietly shifted, and we were all expected to keep walking without asking who changed the speed.

State of the Union

Before I roll into my new SaaS model for sanity, let’s name the moment without melodrama. As a species, we are metabolizing more than we can meaningfully digest, and doing it in public, at speed, with little regard for the dosage. It shows up as that familiar 3 a.m. feeling that you’re somehow doing too much and not enough simultaneously. A low-grade hum of vigilance that never fully powers down. A creeping suspicion that even rest has been quietly absorbed into the performance economy. It’s a strange intuition that shows up not as a personal failure, but as a collective symptom—one that becomes impossible to ignore once you start paying attention and waking up.

• accelerating machine intelligence

• collapsing institutional trust

• nervous systems fully saturated by a metacrisis

• a health industry drunk on Ozempic oscillating between cults and coupon codes

• a meaning crisis that no amount of magnesium glycinate seems to fix

• and a breakdown of shared values, not to mention a shared reality

None of this is theoretical anymore. It shows up in how hard it is to rest without guilt, how quickly we reach for explanations instead of presence, how even joy now carries a faint aftertaste of urgency. The macro pressures don’t stay macro for long—they trickle down into marriages, calendars, group chats, and the quiet way we start to question our own god-given rhythm.

At the same time, we’re being told that it's all a personal failure. That if we just optimized harder, slept better, scrolled less, manifested more… clarity would arrive like an Uber. But most of us (or so I hope) know better by now. That story isn’t empowering, it’s blatant bullshit with a wellness subscription. If 2025 taught us anything, it's that the problem isn’t that we’re bad at being human, it’s that we’re running instructions written for a world that no longer exists.

So how did we get here? Surely not overnight… far more gradually, then suddenly, like Hemingway's bankruptcy. The unraveling didn't announce itself with a bang. It arrived as a series of small accelerations we hardly noticed until we could no longer keep up. Not an era of change, but a change of era—moving us from solid to liquid. Somewhere between old gods being dead, and new ones not yet being born. Institutions, identities, truths, and certainties that seemed permanent are melting (some into soggy, unmistakable puddles already on the floor). Everything that was fixed is flowing. Trading comfort of solid ground for the necessity of learning to swim.

The Long Unraveling

It has become almost cliché to say we’re living through “unprecedented times,” but clichés exist because they keep proving themselves to be true. It's now clear to me that technological change is accelerating faster than our inherited myths can metabolize and make meaning. We’re absorbing shifts that used to take generations in the span of a few Brownlee-hyped product cycles.

We’re trying to orient our moral compasses while the map itself is being redrawn by algorithms with no worldview or concept of a compass. Institutions wobble, not always because they are evil, but because they were never designed for such velocity. Attention has become the most aggressively mined resource on Earth, and meaning—once cultivated slowly in families, faiths, and communities (ask Mr. Putnam)—is now offered back to us in microdoses of manufactured meaning.

And so we do what modern people do when faced with uncertainty: we optimize, we track, we hack, we download another app, we listen to another book, we sip another supplement, we rehearse another internal monologue about discipline and grit, we oscillate between biohacking our bodies, stoicizing our minds, and quietly yearning for purpose that doesn’t feel like a brand deal.

None of this foolish. It’s earnest. It’s deeply human. It’s also utterly insufficient amid the long unraveling. Because most of these approaches (useful as some might be) treat the human being as a collection of parts to be tuned rather than as a whole creature trying to live coherently in a world gone utterly mad.

I know this because I’ve tried most of it. Sincerely. With notebooks and wearables and the best of intentions. And while each offered something useful, none of them addressed the deeper dissonance—that sense of trying to stabilize one layer of life while the others kept slipping out of sync. It didn’t feel like growth so much as keeping something fragile running under conditions it was never built to endure.

Humanity 2.0

We’re no longer just dealing with mindsets or habits (sorry James) or even culture... we’re dealing with operating conditions. This is why ideas about the Anthropocene (see NatGeo), the Metacrisis (see Schmachtenberger), and Human 2.0 (see Wheal) have resonance. Not as programs to adopt wholesale, but as a synthesized diagnosis that rings uncomfortably true.

You can’t Stoic-quote your way out of nervous system disregulation.
You can’t biohack your way into purpose.
You can’t meditate your way past structural precarity.

The crisis we’re in isn’t physical, psychological, or spiritual. It’s all three at once—braided so tightly they can no longer be treated in isolation. You can’t calm a nervous system being continuously hijacked by attention markets using willpower alone (see the social dilemma). You can’t reason your way into meaning when the ground beneath your beliefs keeps shifting. And you sure as hell can’t outsource awe, belonging, or purpose to institutions that are themselves unsure of who they are or wtf they are for.

A harvest ritual wasn't self-care. It was the village acknowledging that the body needs rest, the mind needs myth, and the soul needs gratitude, all at once. Traditional cultures understood this, even if they expressed it differently. They built durable containers (rituals, stories, ceremonies) that synchronized body, mind, and meaning. Modernity disassembled those containers in the name of progress, and for a while, the gains were extraordinary. But now we’re living with the dire downstream effects of American exceptionalism. Fragmentation without integration, freedom without grounding, infinite choice and dopamine drips without coherence.

Humanity 2.0, at its best, isn’t about The Gentle Singularity or becoming “superhuman” (whatever the hell that means). It’s about becoming reintegrated without regressing into dogma, surrendering our skepticism, or outsourcing our agency to gurus, gods, or glowing rectangles. That question—how to integrate without becoming brittle—has been the quiet center of Q1 for me, now echoing through the always-on electric carnival of modernity. And still, something was missing. Even the best frameworks remained just that—frameworks. Elegant maps that didn’t always help when I was tired, conflicted, or making decisions under real constraints. I didn’t need another way to understand the moment. I needed a way to move through it without constantly renegotiating my own sanity or identity.

Why I Built an OS

Somewhere along the way, through Gardens of Knowledge, Learning Economies, Layers of Humans, long conversations, and longer walks, I realized I didn’t need another worldview. I needed something both mundane and radical. I needed a new way to live that could hold complexity without constantly narrating itself into exhaustion. So late last year, with support from my large-language dance partner CStreet, I started to think in terms of an OS. Not as a gimmick, not as a metaphor stretched thin, but as a practical way of describing how I actually move through the world: how attention gets allocated, how decisions are made, how gratitude is expressed, how energy leaks, how views are extended, and how repairs happen without constantly renegotiating my sanity from scratch. The OS metaphor wasn't poetic. It was diagnostic. A shift from dependence to discernment. Here's what that looks like in practice:

That has meant learning how to take and hold the most sacred resources (time, trust, money, narrative) without immediately discharging them out of guilt, anxiety, or the reflex to prove benevolence. This has been one of the harder lessons I've had to learn. Not because I’ve lost faith in redistribution or service, but because I’ve had to see how quickly generosity can become a reflex for discharging discomfort instead of a practice of discernment. I’m no longer interested in giving just to relieve pressure, perform virtue, or make myself smaller so the room feels easier.

I don’t always get this right. There are weeks where the old reflexes win—where urgency sneaks back in wearing the costume of importance, where I give too fast or say yes too quickly just to relieve the pressure of holding uncertainty. This new OS hasn’t made me immune to these patterns. It’s just made them visible sooner, and easier to repair without turning self-critique into a spectator sport.

TAYKΞN OS: In Pursuit of Sovereignty

OS 1.0 was institutional, and it worked until it didn’t. It assumed:

• value flows through organizations

• security comes from affiliation

• impact requires permission

• burnout is the price of relevance

TAYKΞN OS is sovereign, but not in the “lone wolf, gold hoarding, libertarian fever dream” sense. Sovereign as in:

• I can hold resources without shame

• I can act swiftly without waiting for consensus

• I can devise modes of being that match my rhythms

• I can serve without disappearing

• I can say no without collapsing

It's what happens (or at least what's possible) when Humanity 2.0 stops being theory and starts becoming shared practice. It’s what happens when we move from high-perversion (see Q4 2024) to a hyper-version OS that accounts (honestly, without certainty) for our new operating conditions.

Man Meets Machine (Without Surrendering Soul)

It's worth noticing how often suffering comes not from circumstances, but from narration. The stories we tell ourselves about what should be happening, who we should be by now, and what it all supposedly means. What we often want isn't motivation or meaning in those moments—we want interruption. Something small and precise enough to cut through the spiral of disorientation. Here’s where things get interesting. At the same time that AI systems are accelerating around us, sometimes helpfully, more often alarmingly, I’ve found myself borrowing a strange gift from the machine world… unambiguous clarity.

Machines don’t moralize or waste energy on should-haves. They run diagnostics, not autopsies. They don’t shame themselves for unachieved resolutions. They don’t confuse intent with outcome. They operate on commands, constraints, and feedback. So late last year, with a little help from my friends (and lonely hearts), I began translating parts of my life into soulful machine-speak. Not to mechanize it, but to clarify and de-dramatize it. Instead of spiraling into stories about motivation or identity, I ask simpler questions. What’s actually happening in my body right now? What’s one true task that would matter today? What happens if I let the system (re)solve itself instead of forcing an answer?

This is where the idea of adopting a few command prompts emerged. Not as a replacement for reflection, but as a way to interrupt destructive or unhelpful loops. A gentle syntax for human agency amid chaos. There’s something quietly liberating about being able to say, internally, resume without shame... and actually mean it.

Here’s the twist I didn’t expect: I'm now fully convinced that the same “systems-thinking” that built extractive platforms can be repurposed for personal liberation. Not for automation, for clarification. So I started experimenting with writing my life the way engineers write software: Commands. Functions. Debug logs. Fallback states. This has offered new perspective into patterns I'm debugging, modes I move between, and the indispensable kill conditions that protect trust and integrity.

Not because I want to become a machine, but because our operating conditions have shifted, and machines are honest and objective about constraints.

Example: The Prompt as Prayer

Instead of: “Why am I like this?”

TAYKΞN OS invites:

scan_body()
notice_reality()
reduce_surface_area()

Instead of: “I should be doing more.”

TAYKΞN OS invites:

complete_one_true_task()
rest_without_earning_it()

Instead of: “I failed this week.”

TAYKΞN OS invites:

resume_without_shame()

This isn’t gamification, it’s de-shaming cognition. It's a new way to act within a world gone mad without narrating yourself into paralysis.

Monk-with-a-Calendar

Alongside experiments with prompting as prayer, one of the myths I’ve had to let go is that structure and presence are opposites. They’re not. They’re collaborators. The monk needs a bell to return to what matters. The calendar needs blank space to remain humane. So (as many may have noticed) my days have taken on a lighter rhythm. Mornings that protect signal instead of feeding on noise. Midday check-ins that ask whether urgency is real or borrowed. Evenings that simultaneously close loops and open minds (sometimes with a drink, sometimes a walk, sometimes with substances that reveal old patterns with fresh eyes) without taxing tomorrow. Weekly moments of subtraction. Monthly moments of focus. Quarterly moments to reflect, name the season (building, tending, withdrawing, transmitting) and live, structured and present, accordingly.

This isn’t asceticism, it’s alchemical maintenance. No grand reinvention. No public vows. Just fewer leaks and a better sense for who I am and who I hope to become. But any system that only works in solitude is just another kind of escapism. The real proving ground isn’t the morning routine or the quarterly review... it’s the kitchen, the car ride, the moment when plans fall apart and people still need you to be human. If this OS way of living can’t survive there, it isn’t worth keeping.

The Family Test

None of this matters if it only works in theory. The real test has been as much domestic as dispersed. Can this new model for an old way of living survive the dinner table? Can it make conflict shorter, repair faster, presence more personal and felt? Can it be explained without jargon, or better yet, without explanation at all?

I’ve learned that the most important transmission isn’t language, it’s pacing and rhythm. Family and partners don’t learn from our philosophies, they learn from how we move through stress, how we apologize, how we serve, how we rest, how we put the phone down without announcing our virtue. Most nights, the only question that matters is simple and unglamorous: Was I here today?

Here’s the real measure of any OS or philosophy: Can you explain it over dinner and drinks without sounding like a podcast? For me, this new OS passed that test when it stopped being language and started being behavior:

Slower meals, fewer phones, faster repair, less explaining, more vulnerability.

TAYKΞN OS invites:

was_I_here_today()

If yes, then the system is healthy. It’s really that simple.

An Invitation

I don’t know exactly where this year will lead us, and I’m not pretending to. But I’m convinced that the people who will fare best aren’t the loudest, fastest, or most optimized. They’re the ones who can hold complexity without dissociating, and stay in relationship while doing it.

If any of this resonates, stay close. Not to me, but to the questions you've already been carrying. Build your own OS and debug it gently for runtime errors. Borrow commands shamelessly (all great systems are built to be tayken). Refuse false urgency. Protect what’s alive, especially when it isn’t profitable or legible yet.

As 2026 opens, here’s the ground truth I'm running on… subject to revision, not surrender:

• Optimization is not the same as care and speed is rarely wisdom.

• Institutions matter, but they are not prophets or parents.

• Meaning emerges from practice, not proclamation.

• AI is neither savior nor demon; it’s a mirror with a multiplier.

• Sovereignty is the ability to act without self-betrayal.

• Service that erases the self is not virtuous, it’s extractive.

• Rest is not a reward, it’s dark matter infrastructure.

• The future will belong to those who can integrate without ossifying.

I don’t have conclusions. I have strong convictions, loosely held and often revised. I believe we’re being asked to grow more coherent. To integrate body, mind, and meaning without outsourcing responsibility or collapsing into certainty. To use machines as tools without letting them become metaphors for living. And perhaps most stubbornly, I believe this: we don't need to become better humans. We need to gaze honestly at the new landscape and remember how to be whole ones.

That’s my orientation as 2026 begins to unfurl. No grand reveal, but also no brakes. Just hands in the dirt, fewer leaks, and a steadier way of moving through the world—one that leaves the people and places I touch a little more alive than I found them.

Onward, friends.

TAYKΞN OS CORE ARCHITECTURE

What follows isn’t doctrine or prescription, it’s scaffolding built from measured theory and intentional use. You’re not meant to adopt it wholesale, admire it, or argue with it. Borrow what holds. Rename what doesn’t. Ignore anything that isn't joyful or clarifying.

An OS should fade to a whisper or disappear entirely when it’s working. The point is coherence not compliance.

Kernel: Truthful Perception

The system privileges what is over what should be. No performative certainty. No false urgency. Primary interrupt:

notice_reality()

If a story aims to impress, tightens the chest, or accelerates the breath, it gets flagged.

Root Value: Human Dignity > System Throughput

All commands are evaluated against a single constraint: Does this increase aliveness without extracting from others? If not, the command fails.

IDENTITY LAYER (Read-only)

These are not goals. They are human invariants.

• Translator between sense-making regimes

• Gardener of knowledge, not owner of truth

• Builder of containers that outlast attention cycles

• Allergic to domination, fluent in power

Attempts to overwrite this layer result in fractured identity and system instability.

PRIMARY MODES

MODE 1: Stewardship

Activate when resources (time, capital, trust, narrative power) are known and present. Available commands:

hold_without_guilt()
allocate_with_patience()
build_runway()

Key discipline: delay redistribution until clarity emerges.

MODE 2: Mythcraft

Activate when language begins to calcify. Available commands:

reframe_without_cynicism()
name_the_unnameable()
create_ritual_container()

Key discipline: Potent and powerful. Use sparingly and do not over-deploy.

MODE 3: Service

Activate in family, community, and trusted collaboration. Available commands:

listen_past_words()
showup_unarmored()

Key discipline: Service never requires self-erasure.

MODE 4: Withdrawal

This is not failure. This is composting. Available commands:

go_offline()
walk_without_output()
let_system_solve_itself()

Key discipline: If guilt appears, ignore it. Guilt is an OS 1.0 daemon.

ANTI-PATTERNS (with AUTO-KILL)

The system terminates the following processes on detection:

• endless synthesis without deployment

• urgency borrowed from other people’s incentives

• moralized exhaustion

• mistaking visibility for impact

Log message:

PROCESS_KILLED: extraction_disguised_as_opportunity()
PROCESS_KILLED: explaining_instead_of_doing()

TAYKΞN OS PROMPT INDEX

Remember, these aren't goals. They're seasonal orientations. If Q1 feels wrong, skip to Q3. The point is reasoned rhythm, not obedience.

Q1: STABILIZE THE GROUND

consolidate_energy()
audit_commitments()
reduce_surface_area()

Outcome: fewer fronts, deeper roots.

Q2: BUILD DARK INFRASTRUCTURE

strengthen_knowledge_garden()
formalize_trust_networks()
create_small_durable_artifacts()

Outcome: things that work without applause.

Q3: SELECTIVE AMPLIFICATION

choose_where_to_be_loud()
let_others_carry_the_mic()
seed_autonomous_projects()

Outcome: impact without overexposure.

Q4: LINEAGE THINKING

encode_lessons()
mentor_without_recruiting()
prepare_for_handoffs()

Outcome: continuity without control.

FAMILY & RELATIONAL PROTOCOLS

• Presence beats explanation

• Repair beats righteousness

• Children (biological or cultural) learn from how you pace yourself

Nightly checksum:

was_I_here_today()

If yes, system is healthy.

COLLABORATION FILTER

Before entering any new partnership, run:

scan_for_alignment()

Reject if:

• speed is demanded over sense-making

• extractive funding is masked as salvation

• your nervous system goes offline

HEALTH AS SIGNAL, NOT PROJECT

Body is treated as telemetry. Commands:

move_daily()
fast_periodically()
rest_without_earningit()

System Insight: Pain is information, not an enemy.

DEBUGGING PRACTICE

Maintain a simple log:

[DATE] TENSION DETECTED
Context:
Old reflex:
New response:

System Insight: This trains discernment without shame.

SHUTDOWN PHILOSOPHY

You are not here to finish the work. You are here to leave the system more humane than you found it. If, at the end of a day, you can say:

• nothing essential was betrayed

• something living was protected

Then TAYKΞN OS executed successfully.

MONK-WITH-A-CAL CADENCE

No bells. No hustle. Just a gentle, reliable rhythm for a serious life.

DAILY (15–45 minutes total, non-contiguous)

Morning — Boot Lightly

scan_body()
see_the_sun()
set_intent(one_sentence)

Key discipline: no news, no input, no optimization before breakfast.

Midday — Reality Check

notice_reality()
complete_one_true_task()

Key discipline: If more than one task feels urgent, you're borrowing anxiety.

Evening — Close Loops

repair_if_needed()
log_one_line()

Key discipline: One sentence. No narrative. Just signal.

WEEKLY (60–90 minutes, once)

The Long Look

audit_commitments()
reduce_surface_area()

Ask only:

• What quietly drained me?

• What restored me without applause?

Key discipline: Remove one thing. Protect one thing.

MONTHLY (Half-day, preferably outside)

Steward’s Council (Solo)

review_resources()
realign_with_values()
choose_one_focus()

System Rule: No new initiatives unless something else ends.

SEASONAL (Quarterly)

Direction Without Drama

zoom_out()
name_the_season()

Name the season: building, tending, withdrawing, transmitting. Live accordingly.

FAMILY OS (Dinner Table Edition)

No jargon. No command prompts or system-talk. Just how to be together with friends and family without burning out.

HOUSE RULES (SOFT, BUT REAL)

• We never rush meals

• Phones don’t sit on the table

• Anyone can call for a pause

NIGHTLY QUESTION (ROTATE)

Pick one. No pressure to be profound.

• What was one good thing today?

• What was hard, but okay?

• Did anything make you laugh unexpectedly?

Key Discipline: Listening counts more than answering.

CHECK-IN (WEEKLY, 20 MIN)

• Something I appreciated this week

• Something I need help with

• Something I’m excited about

Key Discipline: No fixing unless asked.

CONFLICT PROTOCOL (INVITE SPICE BUT…)

• Pause before explanations

• Name feelings before facts

• Repair ALWAYS beats winning

Key Phrase: “I care more about us than being right.”

WHAT YOU’RE QUIETLY TEACHING (BY DOING)

• Rest is not a reward

• Adults can/should change their minds

• Work matters, but people matter more

• Being present is a form of courage

FULL COMMAND PROMPT INDEX

Below is a comprehensive alchemy index. Learn them once. Run them gently. Remix or combine as needed.

PERCEPTION & AWARENESS

notice_reality()
scan_body()
name_the_season()
zoom_out()

Functions: interrupt reactivity, detect misalignment early, reframe time horizons, restore signal over noise.

ENERGY & CAPACITY

consolidate_energy()
reduce_surface_area()
protect_capacity()
rest_without_earning_it()

Functions: prevent burnout, close energy leaks, preserve creative stamina, maintain long-game viability.

ACTION & WORK

complete_one_true_task()
choose_one_focus()
let_the_system_solve_itself()

Functions: prioritize meaning over volume, avoid false urgency, allow emergence instead of force.

STEWARDSHIP & RESOURCES

hold_without_guilt()
allocate_with_patience()
review_resources()
build_runway()

Functions: manage money, time, and trust without shame; delay premature redistribution; create stability for service.

RELATIONSHIP & SERVICE

listen_past_words()
show_up_unarmored()
repair_if_needed()
resume_without_shame()

Functions: maintain relational trust, de-escalate conflict, model accountability without self-flagellation.

FAMILY & HOME

was_I_here_today()
call_for_pause()
presence_over_explanation()

Functions: anchor attention, slow household tempo, prioritize togetherness over optimization.

MYTH & MEANING

reframe_without_cynicism()
name_the_unnameable()
create_ritual_container()

Functions: loosen frozen narratives, translate complexity, restore imagination without delusion.

COLLABORATION & BOUNDARIES

scan_for_alignment()
choose_where_to_be_loud()
let_others_carry_the_mic()

Functions: filter opportunities, avoid extractive dynamics, amplify without self-exhaustion.

WITHDRAWAL & INTEGRATION

go_offline()
walk_without_output()
log_one_line()

Functions: metabolize experience, integrate learning, maintain coherence during overload.

DEBUGGING & RECOVERY

log_tension()
identify_old_reflex()
run_alternative_response()

Functions: externalize patterns, replace shame with learning, build metacognitive fluency.

SYSTEM SAFETY

process_killed(extraction_disguised_as_opportunity)
ignore_guilt_daemon()

Functions: auto-terminate misaligned demands, protect values under pressure.

FALLBACK COMMAND

resume_without_shame()

Functions: restores system integrity after missed practices, hard days, or human error.

INTEGRATION NOTE

This cadence is not about discipline. It’s about not leaking your life force everywhere at once. If you miss a day, week, or month:

resume_without_shame()

That command is always available.

FINAL SYSTEM NOTE

We are a lost generation at the birth of a renaissance. You are not late. You are early and experienced. The future does not need you louder. It needs you clear, rested, and unowned. You are here to steward capacity (personal, familial, communal) across unstable terrain. System ready. Run gently.

Ok, on to the good stuff...

Taykentots I'm currently snacking on:

• IRL: ETHBoulder + ETHDenver (February 2026)

• Lose Yourself: Antykithera (Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation)

• Read: The Last Economy (Emad Mostaque)

• Read: Peak Higher Ed (Bryan Alexander)

• Review: Situational Awareness (Leopold Aschenbrenner)

I love hearing back and always reply, so don't hesitate. 

With ❤️ and skepticism,
TAYKΞN
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