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The Dopamine Goblin
A fable for the ADHD brains: monsters that name the pattern, rituals that name the counter.
 • Justin Shank
The Number That Was Never Measured
A confident constant in my own notes, traced back to the line where it was invented. Including the part where my own audit of it overreached.
 • Justin Shank
The Task Hydra
A man sat down to send one email.
 • Justin Shank
Defective Had Become a Junk Drawer
The most dangerous operational failures do not look unfinished. They look complete.
 • Justin Shank
The Three Limits That Make You Real
We treat every limit as a flaw to engineer away. Remove the three deepest ones and there’s no one left to do the removing.
 • Justin Shank
The End of the “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” Problem: Announcing Cognitive Glow
Obsidian Plug In -If you’re tired of your vault feeling like a black hole, give it a spin.
 • Justin Shank
A Clock That Listens
An engine that gives software a sense of its own time.
 • Justin Shank
The Walls That Make the Room
Are Reality's Limits a Feature, Not a Bug?
 • Justin Shank
We Went Back
Artemis II, the Moon, and what we forget to feel when the critics start talking.
 • Justin Shank
The Edge Explored
The Edge Explored
Thinking at the edge of what it means to be human.
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