Dillard asks: how do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning? My answer: put your boots on and go for a walk. www.soulcruzer.com/the-writing...

I just read this piece on Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less…basically force your LLM to keep each reasoning step under 5 words. Same accuracy. 7% of the tokens. And token management is a big deal. Turns out most of what we mistake for ... https://www.soulcruzer.com/notes/395b388cd9/

What happens when you stop resisting the night and let it work on you? www.soulcruzer.com/moon-bathin...

testing the micropublish web app. https://www.soulcruzer.com/notes/10bc4fce90/

the mind in motion is the product...

there's no difference in kind between a messy notebook and the structure of reality itself.

I made another version of the cut-up machine based on The Third Mind by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Play with it. See what comes to you. Paste any interesting results in the comments or on here. Try it: www.soulcruzer.com/the-cut-up-...

It's 9PM. How many apps have you vibe-coded today?

the community is the curriculum... rhizomatic learning David Cormier

the patterns i identified that need debugging: 👉 The identity stack overload. 👉 The post-linear mind vs. linear output demands. 👉 Visionary ignition and completion drag. 👉 Teaching what you're still learning.

currently debugging the cybernetic humanoid known as @soulcruzer aka clay lowe.

if there is no center and no beginning, then you aren't drifting away from anything. you are simply expanding the network.

found a manual in the back of a charity shop titled Everyday Rites for the Overwhelmed... Page 47 read: To dissolve an unwanted identity, speak its full name aloud to an animal that will not repeat it. Pigeons work. Avoid the crows; they remember.

not sure this is fully formed yet, but here’s something I’m circling…

Mixcloud live: www.mixcloud.com/live/soulcr... popup session

Leary’s 8 Circuits of Development: A Mythic Map of Human Becoming Timothy Leary’s 8-circuit model is one of those strange, half-wild frameworks that refuses to die because, scientific or not, it touches something real in the imagination. On the su... https://www.soulcruzer.com/notes/acdf3e2bfa/

The Baffler on AI and cognition: nothing about this trajectory is inevitable. The future isn’t fixed. It’s being written by people with very particular interests. The piece is quiet but the point lands hard (https://thebaffler.com/latest/think-noth... https://www.soulcruzer.com/notes/e2c9630f0f/

Most people think imagination is escape. Neville Goddard flips that completely. He argues that imagination is the hidden workshop where reality is first assembled — through inner conversation, assumption, feeling, and the quiet scripts we keep repeating to ourselves.

What I find interesting about self-talk is that we almost never think to question whether that narrator inside our head is actually telling the truth.

The voice in your head isn’t neutral. It’s not recording reality. It’s editing it. Most of us live inside the story without ever questioning the narrator. What changes when you finally hear it as a voice… not the truth? The Editor, Not the Camera.

I have been thinking about the vocabulary we use for the inner life. How much of it actually belongs to us. Most of the words we reach for when we try to describe what is happening inside, sadness, anxiety, frustration, and fear, were handed to us. By... https://www.soulcruzer.com/notes/cea5b9cb55/

Narrative Alchemy Prompt #2 The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new - Pema Chödrön There’s a story you already know how to run. Not merely know. You’ve rehearsed it until it passes through the nervous system like a familiar current. You can cue the opening…

Are any of my social audio friends on Gistvox, the new social audio app? @sm2n.bsky.social @dkwyatt3.bsky.social @documental.ly @topgold.ie @raygarraud.run @mrfresh.bsky.social

when in doubt, get weirder...

What if your notes weren’t static? This piece explores the shift from second brain to living archive...where AI, memory, and meaning form a conversational field you can think inside. www.soulcruzer.com/the-archive...

Likes Hesitantly Surfing the Looming AI Tsunami (Part One) – 3:AM Magazine (https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hesitantly-surfing-the-looming-ai-tsunami-part-one/). A jagged, unfiltered interview that treats AI less like a tool and more like a cultural... https://www.soulcruzer.com/likes/f174bc50f6/

What does "authoring your own story" mean if meaning is always constituted in reading?

Bad faith isn't lying. It's a spell you cast on yourself. The spell that says: what you've been is what you must be. That the past is a cage rather than simply a past. 1/3

Most people think they’re discovering who they are. But often they’re just accepting a definition that arrived pre-installed...family, culture, algorithm, accent. Whoever wrote that script still collects rent. Define yourself, or be defined.

The ego isn't your enemy. It's your edge. The boundary where you end and the infinite begins. Every mystic who ever walked into the dark came back saying the same thing: *this is the wall.*

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

geopolitics, mind control, and pop music make a potent cocktail.

What Introspection Can’t See We’ve been sold a very specific myth about self-knowledge. It usually arrives dressed in soft lighting and moral seriousness. Slow down. Turn inward. Observe what’s happening inside with slightly more honesty than usual. Sit with yourself. Journal. Reflect. Notice your…

All things end and begin with story. Mainly because human beings don't experience reality directly. We experience the interpretation of reality. And narrative is the primary medium of interpretation. On meaning, identity, and the machinery of transformation... www.soulcruzer.com/all-things-...

Likes Piercing the Illusion: What the Easter Story Reveals About Human Nature (https://sriladevi.com/2026/03/31/easter-story-human-nature/) by Srila Devi. The Sicily setting is the right place to encounter this story. There’s something about partici... https://www.soulcruzer.com/likes/17cbc637fe/

all self-knowledge is interpretive, and narrative is the primary medium of interpretation.

You can understand your patterns and still be trapped inside them. Because understanding isn’t the same as becoming.

Knowledge of your cage does not open the door.

This fascinates me: How psychology fills the gap from the disenchantment of the world' — the argument that when modernity lost its gods, it handed psychology the job once done by mythology and religion, and what that trade actually cost us.

Existential guilt is the psyche's way of telling you the code is broken. It’s not a sign that you're a failure; it’s a signal that your current "script" is misaligned with your values. Don't ignore the signal. Use it to update the code.

The more rigidly you maintain your persona, the more energy goes into maintenance. And the less you have left for the actual work of living.

Your brain doesn’t store memories, it reconstructs them every time you recall them. So when you say “This is who I am,” you’re not describing reality. You’re editing it in real time.

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." Today’s Narrative Alchemy prompt invites you into the original story you inherited—the role you didn’t choose, but learned to play. 20 minutes. One question. See what reveals itself. → Read & write with me:

The danger of romanticising your own life is that you eventually stop living it. You start performing it instead. You become a spectator of your own experience, constantly checking to see if the lighting is right and if the dialogue sounds profound. Yo... https://www.soulcruzer.com/notes/4eba802b7c/

What if success isn’t something you achieve, but something you unlearn your way into? This reflection opened up that question for me. sriladevi.com/2026/03/23/...

Likes What Is Your Definition of Success? (https://sriladevi.com/2026/03/23/definition-of-success/) by Srila Devi. What struck me most reading this is how success keeps shedding its skin as we grow. Early on, it often looks like accumulation…status... https://www.soulcruzer.com/likes/c288095160/

Untitled Curios...what is this?

Your brain doesn’t store memories, it reconstructs them every time you recall them. So when you say “This is who I am,” you’re not describing reality. You’re editing it in real time. This isn’t a bug. It’s the mechanism. Every time you... https://www.soulcruzer.com/notes/51267cf393/