Miniseries – My Tools
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The Clause of Self: Tools of Definition
Author’s Note You’ve probably accepted more end-user license agreements in your life than you can count. Scroll. Click. Agree. Whether it’s a social platform, software install, or subscription service, you… Read more.
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Through Smoke, the Signal: Tools of Learning and Growth
Author’s Note After we clear the debris and raise new beams, we’re left with something quieter—but no less demanding: the question of how to keep from building the same cage… Read more.
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Blueprint After the Fire: Conflict Without Casualty
Author’s Note I thought I was finished with this personal‑tools series, content to leave the last entry smoldering behind me as I resumed writing about systems instead of scars. In… Read more.
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The Firebreak: Tools of Devastation and Renewal
Author’s Note Fire and demolition are ugly words in a culture obsessed with preservation. We prefer makeovers, revisions, “continuous improvement.” But every builder knows there are ruins that cannot be renovated,… Read more.
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Tools of Survival: The Ethics of Psychic Triage
Author’s Note Wrap the strap around the limb a couple inches closer to the heart. Pull hard on the strap. Insert the windlass and twist. Keep twisting until the spurts… Read more.
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The Mirror and the Pattern: Tools of Judgment
Author’s Note This is the third step in our exploration of clarity—not just seeing harm, not just responding to it, but judging it with precision. In The Cartographer’s Curse, I… Read more.
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The Stance and the Strike: Tools of Response and Resolve
Author’s Note This is the second entry in a sub-series about clarity—not just the clarity of seeing, but the more difficult clarity of standing your ground after you’ve seen. Last… Read more.
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The Cartographer’s Curse: Tools of Clarity
Author’s Note This entry in the Tools series is more personal than the others. It doesn’t excavate systems of power so much as document what it costs to examine them up close,… Read more.
