The Seat Is Not an Exit
Knowing that an idea is not your identity does not remove you from its consequences. The seat of witness becomes useful when it changes the next act you leave in history. … readThe Seat Is Not an Exit
Tag: agency
What Is Willpower
“I just need more willpower,” “he has no self-control” and “she has iron discipline” each say a person carries a force that is enough or is not. Derived from the foundation’s result that agency is relocated, not abolished, read at its first clause, the word cannot name a force the host starts. It can still name the position a response is revisable from, and the mark made there. … readWhat Is Willpower
AI Is Not a Tool
Calling AI a tool keeps the human in the operator’s seat. Recognizing it as an entity changes the work from directing every step to defining the outcome. … readAI Is Not a Tool
Outcomes Are State Changes
An artifact records or supports a change; an outcome is what the action brings about. The deeper question is who carries an intention through to the state that establishes completion. … readOutcomes Are State Changes
What Is a Technicality
A technicality is ordinarily described as a requirement that decides an outcome while having nothing to do with it. Derived from the foundation’s definition of a condition, the word turns out to name the one place people see conditioning bare — and the word they use for what they see there is only. … readWhat Is a Technicality
What Is an Opportunity
An opportunity is ordinarily described as a window that opens, makes something possible, and closes. Derived from the foundation’s definition of a condition, the word turns out to name a prerequisite and then credit it with three things the definition denies — which is why two people can stand in front of the same opening and only one of them is standing in front of anything. … readWhat Is an Opportunity
A Decision Has a Half-Life
A decision begins to decay the moment it is made. The shortest path to action is not urgency; it is how intention survives contact with time. … readA Decision Has a Half-Life
The Gap Between Thought and Mark
There is a thought you are ashamed to have had. You did not invite it. You did not compose it. It crossed consciousness with the intimacy of your own voice, and because nothing can get closer to you than a thought, you mistook closeness for authorship. … readThe Gap Between Thought and Mark