Selected Essays

Pick whatever catches your eye. You don't need to read them in order.

The Grammar of Existence

Why is there something rather than nothing? The question dissolves when you examine its terms.

25 min read

Between e and φ

How Euler's constant and the golden ratio define the boundaries of what can persist and what can change.

35 min read

The Topology of Being Alive

Your center is outside. Living systems are organized around hollow channels of not-them running through their middles.

8 min read

The Standing Wave Pattern

Connecting wave physics, DDJ Chapter 25, and biological growth through the pattern of originate-extend-boundary-return.

10 min read

Chapter 11: The Wheel, Pot, and Room

The DDJ's most concrete teaching: void isn't absence, it's where function happens.

12 min read

The Gap That Makes Everything Possible

The same structural gap appears across philosophy, mathematics, mysticism, and ancient texts. Different names, same shape.

14 min read

Euler's Identity and the Dao

How e^(iπ) + 1 = 0 reveals the same structure as the Dao De Jing's opening.

15 min read

Chapter 1: The Coordinate System

The DDJ's opening chapter establishes a coordinate system for observing reality.

8 min read

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