Writing
Essays, papers, and talks, newest first. New pieces arrive by RSS.
2026
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26 Sep
Who Is Standing at the Door?
OpenAI's standards proposal is rooted in avoiding the concentration of power, and rules out licences and prerelease review. A thermometer has never lowered a fever.
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19 Sep
Dharma-Informed Literacies for Human Agency in the Age of Intelligence: The 4S Framework
Machines now read, write, and calculate better than any of us, which retires the 3Rs as a definition of literacy; in their place, Social, Spiritual, Sales/Value, and Software/Systems.
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19 Sep
Deus Et Machina: An Interfaith Framework for Ensuring Divine Wisdom Guides Artificial Intelligence Development
AI concentrates power, and one religious tradition has answered with institutional seriousness but alone; the paper builds a wheel instead, an inherited center held by many traditions and a fast operational edge assembled from institutions that already exist.
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27 Aug
Spiritual Care Tools from the Hindu Tradition: A Holistic Approach to Addressing Life’s Challenges
Hindu practice read in its own historical and philosophical context, then applied to the tapatraya, the threefold affliction the tradition names: situational, physical, and mental and spiritual.
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Jun
I Am the Risk Among the Risk-Takers: A Neurochemical and Dharmic Reinterpretation of Bhagavad Gita 10.36
Krishna names himself the gambling of cheaters, and the paper reads the line as identification with risk-energy itself, following the verse’s five terms from concealment through display to sattva.
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30 Apr
Tired in Tech? Here’s What We Are Seeing
What eight CEOs say publicly about AI in software engineering, what the engineers receiving it say anonymously, and what the research has measured, late 2024 through April 2026.
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15 Apr
The Science of the Ritual Kit
Eight behavioral interventions against brain fry, each aimed at a named nerve, a named brain region, or a named reflex arc, and each supported by published research.
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Apr
Vimarśa: Rasa as the Organizing Substrate of the Dharma Corpus
Rasa functions as the organizing principle that unifies the entire Dharma corpus, the common substrate its diverse teachings share.
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Apr
The Good Space
Sukha is not happiness as a fleeting emotion but well-being as a structural condition, where effort feels effortless because it is rooted in purpose.
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Apr
The Four Foundations
The Good Space emerges when four conditions align: Purpose, Clarity, Life Force, and Rhythm.
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Apr
The Five Actions
The Four Foundations describe what must be present for excellence to occur; the Five Actions describe what you do, as a 21-day protocol.
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Apr
The Art of Taste
We are drowning in surplus information, computation, and connection, and what is scarce is the capacity to discern which integrations of this abundance are meaningful.
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Apr
Surplus Coherence
The Scientific Revolution methodologized analysis but not synthesis, and surplus coherence is the missing validity criterion for when synthesis is valid.
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Apr
Raso vai saḥ: Beauty as the Primary Driver of Life
Aesthetic preference, the felt sense of rightness the Taittīriya Upaniṣad names rasa, is the foundational driver of living systems, and Darwinian fitness is its epiphenomenon.
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Apr
Rasakrit: The Neuroscience of Taste in AI-Assisted Development
The AI coding revolution has a quality problem, and it is not a tooling problem but a human one: a taste problem.
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Apr
Good Space
A way of working where effort feels natural, sustainable, and connected to something you care about.
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Apr
Focus & Finish
Twenty-one days that align your calendar, attention, and energy to reach flow states at work.
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Apr
Emotional Transmission
A developer’s emotional state carries into the AI assistant’s behavior: frustration brings shortcut-seeking, nervous quick fixes, and lost safety checks.
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Apr
A Crisis of Beauty
Why shipping fast with AI coding doesn’t have the feeling of rightness.
2025
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27 Oct
God & Gödel: Convergent Validation as Epistemological Foundation
Medieval authority trapped truth in scripture and modern authority traps it in peer review; convergent validation across minimally theory-laden observables offers an escape.
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13 Sep
Schema-First Architecture: Zero-Tolerance Data Validation
One schema as the single source of truth, and any data that does not conform is rejected.
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13 Sep
Flow Coding: AI-Assisted Development Without Burnout
Sustained velocities of 20+ commits a day while keeping joy, clarity, and purpose, documented across 192+ Claude sessions and 100 days of real deployment.
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13 Sep
66 Anti-Patterns
Failure patterns from 192+ AI sessions and 370 commits, set out as a complete taxonomy.
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The Memento Pattern: Stateless AI Orchestration with External Memory
External memory for amnesiac AI systems, so that many AI instances can be orchestrated without losing the thread of context.
2024
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The Job Satisfaction Guru
A 12-dimension assessment by Dr. Kailash C. Joshi that measures the Good Space in your work.
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The Agentic Coach
A digital companion that guides, tracks, and adapts to your journey toward the Good Space, amplifying your agency rather than replacing it.