Resolved: I will know myself.
I write about the messy, nonlinear process of personal transformation — the lessons that only come from living through difficulty and choosing to grow anyway.
My foundational elements
The principles, values, attributes, and goals I’m building my life around — each one chosen, not inherited.
Foundation
Principles
Values
Attributes
Goals
The ground beneath everything else I hold
Active commitments and operational rules governing all choices
Tangible metrics, targets, and deliverables tracking all execution
Foundational nouns serving as the prerequisites for all internal mechanisms
Concrete commitments that hold me accountable
Miles run
Building endurance, building character.
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of 1,500
Books read
Forty a year. No exceptions.
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of 120
Words written
Putting in the reps on the page.
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of 300,000
New words learned
Expanding how I think and express.
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of 78
Self-education pathway
A mastery-based curriculum producing evidence of competence—not credentials. Every unit produces a deliverable assessed against defined standards under external review.
Foundation: A multi-year field research program documenting how incarcerated people learn—structured protocol, nine observation categories, six forms on nested review cycles from daily through annual.
Writing — formal grammar, rhetoric, and professional document production. Seven units from diagnostic through publication.
AI literacy — evaluating AI across four applied domains: carceral education, legal guidance, construction safety, and product assessment.
Guidance system — an AI-powered platform for federal defendants and their families, from indictment through reentry.
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