Filled with dread.
Listening to Starmer and Albanese earlier - their domestic political survival - coming out before Trump’s address, the prospect going into the long weekend is:
- Sudden chaotic withdrawal
- Escalation and next stage of the conflict
We're being primed.
Orientation
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Orientation is for people who have begun to notice that the world is changing, and that familiar explanations no longer work. It’s written from inside the process of re-orienting: after belief, before certainty. Moving between the macro and personal.
Writing my first Bitcoin essay.
At $67k, not $120k.
Not about price. About reaching my late twenties and realising I'd never believed in anything before.
Leaving a job into a 40% drawdown and living by something most people think is speculation.
When you tell your therapist something, there are rules.
When you tell ChatGPT something, there aren't.
Memory arrived before obligation.
Human memory is not complete or exact. We remember in fragments, shaped by what we already know and expect. Much of what we experience is forgotten, and even what remains is rarely an exact record.
That imperfection isn’t a flaw; it’s how memory works for humans.
Memory is intimate because it’s tied closely to identity. Our past experiences shape how we respond, what we notice, and who we become. That’s also why the loss of memory is so devastating: as the past disappears, so does a part of who we are.
But forgetting matters too. It’s what allows life to move forward without being endlessly replayed. It creates space for forgiveness, reinvention, and change. It makes life liveable. We forget because we must.
Artificial intelligence is now rewriting how memory works. Systems are beginning to carry context forward across interactions. Memory no longer fades by default. A more continuous record can span decisions, preferences, conversations, and contexts - assembling a working sense of a person over time.
This evolution changes the conditions under which identity stays fluid. The process of moving on from who we were - and discovering who we are becoming - is less certain.

