COGITA·DISCE·NECTE·ENUNTIA
Software Engineer • Systems Thinker • Knowledge Gardener
| location | Grand Rapids Michigan USA |
| keys to life | Sleep, Move, Eat, Grow, Play, & Share |
| site | https://philoserf.com/ |
We know the least about our most common activities.
The automation paradox states that mastery breeds unawareness. Our time-consuming routines—breathing, walking, thinking—are ingrained and run below conscious notice.
This unawareness creates blind spots. We study hobbies more than work, weigh meals more than breakfast, and debug code more than assumptions.
To fix this, examine the automatic on purpose. Pick a constant activity and look at it as if you’ve never done it before.
An analysis of how wealthy individuals casually treating democratic collapse as inevitable rather than preventable creates epistemic closure, normalizes authoritarian consolidation, and accelerates institutional failure through elite abandonment.
If you code, consider Claude Code. I now fully endorse this tool.
An analysis of the 1985 collaboration between David Bowie, Pat Metheny, and Lyle Mays on "This Is Not America," examining how three musicians from different genres created a successful jazz-rock fusion that addressed Reagan-era political themes while demonstrating the possibilities of cross-genre collaboration.
An analysis of the irony in mediocre thinkers predicting AI will replace cognitive work like their own, exploring how the Dunning-Kruger effect prevents accurate self-assessment and why those making the loudest predictions may be most vulnerable to displacement.