Essays
The Axyloris Manifesto
People don't fail for lack of ambition. They drift. Why we built Athena.
Why I stopped journaling and started answering one question a night
Journaling failed for me the way it fails for most people: the writing stopped. What replaced it was one question in the evening, asked by something that remembers the answer.
How to connect Claude to a memory that is actually yours
A five-minute, non-technical guide to MCP: what it is, how to connect Claude to Athena, and how "send this to Athena" keeps what you decided without storing anything you did not approve.
What it means to build judgment into software
Most AI tools store and summarise. Judgment is deciding what to leave out. What Athena has to judge every morning, and why it refuses to do some things on purpose.
How to get out of a losing streak, one thing at a time
After a $647k loss, a trader on the loop that follows a bad run, in markets and in life, and the only way out he has found: one finished thing a day.
The signal to noise ratio, as Steve Jobs used it
Steve Jobs ran his days on three things and called the rest noise. A trader on what that ratio looks like when you don't have a company to absorb the noise for you.
The rule I wrote the night I gave back the month
A trading loss, the rules written that same night, and the tool built to hold them the next time discipline was about to slip.
Why I built an assistant that listens instead of one that watches
Why watching everything produces noise, and why an assistant that only knows what you choose to tell it works better.