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Middle Powers and the New Non-Alignment
India, the Gulf and ASEAN are not choosing sides. They are pricing both. Hedging has quietly become grand strategy, and the next two decades belong to whoever prices it best.
A Second Brain That Argues Back
A notes app stores what you said. The system worth building holds competing hypotheses about you, weighs the evidence and revises its beliefs. Memory as dialectic, not archive.
The Psychology of the Long Game
Twenty year plans fail at year two because the self who writes the plan is never the self who must live it. Durable goals are the ones designed to survive their own author's revisions.
Walking as an Operating System
The camera is an excuse. The walk is where the week's problems get reordered without my permission. I have learned to trust legs over lists.
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