Here you can find all my personal writing, thoughts on metabolic health, somatic practice notes, and other musings over the years.
| Title |
Date Published |
Description |
| Opening the Cellular Glucose Doors |
2026-08-10 |
How light exercise moves glucose into skeletal muscles without insulin. |
| Full Body Qigong Sequence for Balance and Structural Alignment Draft |
2026-08-03 |
A comprehensive sequence of movements to improve balance, overall body fluidity, and lower stress. |
| Tea Tek |
2026-08-01 |
A way to consume magic mushrooms without stomach cramps or sudden somnolence. |
| Home Practices: Growing Mushrooms |
2026-07-19 |
I've got lots of plants growing inside and outside, but no funti. It's a fun habit, and it's time to revisit this home practice. |
| Home Practices Draft |
2026-06-26 |
Some home practices you can use nearly anytime and anywhere, even away from home. |
| Fixing Your Wiring Draft |
2026-06-22 |
A complete sequence to realign your collagen, integrate and improve your body's signaling, and lower your nervous floor baseline. |
| Basic Somatic Framework For Increased Proprioception Draft |
2026-05-16 |
A sequence to help train your nervous system through grounding and then aligning like a self stabilizing gyroscope. You can do this for a few minutes for a basic proprioception preload, or as an extended routine. |
| The I Ching Paradox Engine: MicroKernel |
2026-05-11 |
A recursive bitwise-rotation engine for somatic discovery and systemic calibration. |
| The Somatic OS: Core Architecture & Telemetry |
2026-04-30 |
Foundational definitions and systemic mechanics governing the Somatic Operating System. |
| I Stochasticinator: Somatic OS Engine |
2026-04-30 |
A stochastic discovery tool for translating I Ching hexagrams into systemic somatic practice through four analytical lenses. |
| The Paradox Engine |
2026-04-16 |
A randomization tool I use to mix up my somatic practices. |
| Somatic Calibration: The Paradox Engine Draft |
2026-04-06 |
A generative tool for somatic practice. Migrate from "Passenger" to "Somatic Calibrator" by using stochastic noise to reset your nervous system. |
| Proactive Preparation: When Missing the Target Transforms Everything Draft |
2026-01-29 |
“When targeted prep like a storm pitcher or front splits pursuit ‘misses,’ it often unlocks greater value—echoing Weinberg’s railroad paradox and kata practices that turn direction into serendipitous good luck.” |
| Neck Isometrics and Wu Chi: Full body engagement Draft |
2026-01-19 |
What happens when you introduce Wu Chi (the stance before Tai Chi) and then use isometrics to help build your neck strength? You get your core engaged, and this exercise goes from great for the next to great for the core. |
| Neck Adjacent: Standard Sequence |
2026-01-07 |
Neck-Adjacent: Standard Sequence relieves neck tension through shoulder, upper back, and spine stretches. Minimal 11-min version; full 30-min with warm-up/close. Science of Stretching-inspired, Tai Chi-aligned. Consistent practice builds control. |
| Bamboo: Embodying Three Principles Draft |
2025-12-11 |
What planting bamboo and "knowing better than the grower" taught me |
| Reflections on Belief, Perfection, and What Comes After |
2025-11-22 |
Walking my dogs, it occurred to me that there are different consequences to different belief systems in this reality. |
| Full Bridge Pose Prep |
2025-11-18 |
Worked with Perplexity.ai to create some exercises to help me get to a full wheel pose. |
| SoS for Tai Chi and Bagua, V2 |
2025-10-29 |
Updated version of This Routine |
| Master MasterWei Lun Haung's Dragon Palm Changes Draft |
2025-10-25 |
A sequence of Bagua palm changes, using dragon palms. |
| Side Splits Routine Draft |
2025-10-22 |
A sequence of strenghtening, balancing, and flexibilty that will help you move towards side splits. |
| Posterior Chain Stretch |
2025-09-05 |
A sequence to help loosen your entire posterior chain, heals to head. |
| Fix Those Hips |
2025-08-25 |
A 5-day sequence of hip-related strengthening and deep flexibility poses that will help your hips be happy. |
| Undo Sitting All Day: 5-Day Science of Stretching Plan |
2025-08-14 |
A 5-day sequence of deep flexibility poses that will help reverse the damage your body takes from sitting all day. |
| Liminal Thinking, Satir Interaction Model, Buddhism everything is Mind |
2025-08-01 |
Connecting the Pyramid of Belief, Satir’s Interaction Model, and the Buddhist View That “Everything Is Mind” |
| Sleep, Cannabis, and Metabolic Surprises—My Personal Journey |
2025-07-29 |
A personal account of overcoming long-term insomnia through careful cannabis use, this post explores the unexpected links between THC, sleep quality, and metabolic health—offering insights from real-world experimentation and lifestyle change. |
| Change is Inevitable—Guide Your Adventure Draft |
2025-07-24 |
A 10-year and counting experience report on health and wellness. |
| From Form to Flow: Neuroplasticity, Intention, and the Dance of Mindful Practices |
2025-07-11 |
A deep dive into how internal martial arts, stretching, meditation, ritual magick, and AI interactions enhance neuroplasticity, flexibility, and personal transformation through intention and flow. |
| In the Beginning: The Genesis of IntentionFrom Form to Intention: Deepening Internal Practice |
2025-06-21 |
An interpretation of a previous blog post using a style like Genesis as interpreted by Damien Echols |
| Energy Practice: Blending Ritual Visualization, Qi Exercises, and Total Breath Draft |
2025-06-21 |
Combining the subtle energy work from Ritual: An Essential Grimoire, foundational qi exercises from Rick Krause, and the clinically researched "total breath" from The Healing Power of the Breath |
| From Form to Intention: Deepening Internal Practice |
2025-06-20 |
A practical guide to deepening internal martial arts and stretching practice by integrating intention, emotional coherence, ego awareness, and evidence-based health benefits. |
| Practicing Katas in Typescript |
2024-11-01 |
Been practicing Katas in typescript and decided to script basic project creation |
| Modern Threading Issues |
2024-10-14 |
Modern stacks handle multiple users well when those users do not share data, there are still cases where knowledge of parallel/threading issues is still good to keep in mind. |
| This is one of those "May you Live in Interesting Times" days. |
2024-04-23 |
A field report from today on where the day went. It involved around 10 different technologies, because it was an interesting day. |
| The Legends of Qigong |
2024-04-04 |
A legendary history of Qigong from its inception until today. Written by my friend, mentor, sufi, and legend, Rick J. Krause. |
| SoS Teacher Training Notes Day 11 |
2024-03-28 |
Collecting notes from day 11, teaching opportunities, bound butterfly, supine butterfly, prone butterfly |
| SoS Pose Clinic Cross Reference |
2024-03-28 |
Where to find a particular pose, first in order, then alphabetical |
| SoS Teacher Training Notes Day 10 |
2024-03-27 |
Collecting notes from day 10, pain, supported squat, supported pigeon, supported lightning bolt |
| SoS Teacher Training Notes Day 9 |
2024-03-25 |
Collecting notes from day 9, reverse dog, block bridge, block noodle |
| SoS Teacher Training Notes Day 6 |
2024-03-25 |
Collecting notes from day 6, Side Leg, Wild Thing, Short Dog, Cat/Cow, Flamenco 1/2/3, Half Fish/Heart Opening |
| SoS Teacher Training Notes Day 5 |
2024-03-25 |
Collecting notes from day 5, Noodle, Pretzel Arms, Jackknife Blaster |
| SoS Teacher Training Notes Day 8 |
2024-03-24 |
Collecting notes from day 8, Frog 1, Frog 2/Half Frog, Pigeon, Fallen Pigeon, Twisted Pigeon, Blaster, Blaster Twist, Fallen Blaster |
| SoS Teacher Training Notes Day 7 |
2024-03-23 |
Collecting notes from day 7, Wide Dog, Passive Squat, Twister |
| SoS for Tai Chi Post Notes Day 4 |
2024-03-21 |
Collecting notes from day 4, Pigeon upright, plough |
| SoS for Tai Chi Post Notes Day 3 |
2024-03-20 |
Collecting notes from day 3, Double Pigeon, Shoulder Pow, Cliffhanger, Lightning Bolt |
| SoS Notes for the Sequences hips, back, hamstring |
2024-03-20 |
Another pass through notes on poses in SoS. This is breaking it down by the three sequences we have as a base: hips, back, hamstring |
| SoS for Tai Chi Post Notes Days 1, 2 |
2024-03-19 |
Collecting notes from first two days, Moon Squats, Blaster, Butterfly |
| SoS for Tai Chi and Qigong First Teach Personal Notes |
2024-03-16 |
Taught the series for the first time, I'm going to go back through it and record observations, good, and bad. |
| My Intentional Practices Bio |
2024-03-14 |
What are my current practices, and some important turning points along the way. |
| Science of Stretching for Tai Chi and Bagua |
2024-03-02 |
Deep stretches for Tai Chi, Bagua, Qigong. |
| Dragon Palm Changes, Li, Bao Hau |
2024-02-26 |
My notes on the 9 palm changes in the Dragon Plam Change Swet by Li, Bao Hau - the Ma Gui Lineage Holder |
| To Do: Flexibility Coach Training Draft |
2024-02-02 |
What I know I have to do/want to do by the time class starts. |
| Intermittent Habituation Draft |
2024-02-02 |
One of a collection of habit changing/coping techniques for hard to change habits |
| Change Through Fixation |
2024-01-23 |
The habit of forming habits might be a better place to keep your brain. |
| The Importance of the Jiggle |
2024-01-22 |
Changing your behavior can be targeted, but increase your odds by embracing the J in Jerry Weinberg's MOIJ model |
| Laughing Buddha Belly |
2024-01-07 |
What can you do right now, any time, to invent spaciousness. |
| Video Experiment Draft |
2024-01-03 |
What I learned over a 1-month experiment that mixes lean thinking, tai chi, video editing. |
| Meditation Helps |
2023-11-30 |
You can meditate anywhere, any tine. That even surprised me. |
| Habit of Habit Draft |
2023-09-06 |
How can you apply the ideas of rapid feedback, models of behavior change, as part of an means to create your intention. |
| The 6-Realms and The 6 Mantras Draft |
2023-02-21 |
Looking for tried and true wisdom from Buddhism to approach addressing challenges to being agile |
| Making Grain Jars Draft |
2022-11-13 |
Growing mushrooms in grain is how I prefer to work. Here is a specific how I currently make them. |
| Cupcake Growing Tek Draft |
2022-11-11 |
This is an unproven mushroom grow tek I want to capture, because I think it could be fun, and it mixes growing styles. |
| Smoothie Draft |
2022-11-08 |
What I Make Daily, and why is that ingredient there? |
| Growing Mushrooms At Home Growth - Part 2: Growth Medium Draft |
2022-05-22 |
Creating a hospitable place for your spores. |
| Growing Mushrooms At Home - Part 1 |
2022-03-10 |
Preparing to grow mushrooms, getting started, and progression of skills. |
| Am I Here? |
2022-02-27 |
Form a habit to increase your ability to be present. |
| The Mechanics of Setting an Intention before Meditation |
2022-02-20 |
Why can setting an intention before meditation actually have a huge impact? |
| Decaarbing Weed Using an Instapot |
2021-11-11 |
And then making browines that taste amazing, an hit hard. |
| Task Focus as Meditation |
2021-10-26 |
Example of using focus on a difficult task to get the brain into a calm state. |
| How You Look At It Draft |
2021-10-21 |
Ostensibly, this is about how to remove a pink cast in a picture. |
| Perfection Is a Journey, Not an Event |
2021-03-12 |
I'm re-reading Are Your Lights On as an entirely different person. An observation. |
| Threading Story Draft |
2021-02-22 |
A place where I used threading to speed up a problem, and made it harder for myself. |
| Time Travel |
2021-02-18 |
Getting time under control in Spring, one way |
| Some of My Epiphanies, a Beginning Draft |
2021-02-18 |
I've had a number of moments of clarity throughout my life, the most recent either being a cliché or an inspirational poster
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| Ginger Snaps |
2021-02-17 |
Yes, ginger snaps. Actual, literal, ginger snaps. |
| Non-Printable Characters and How We Got Them |
2021-02-15 |
We do a bit of scripting. We often get input files that have non-printable characters. Sometimes we make them ourselves. How can you identify when that's an issue and how can you fix it?
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| Sed Breakdown dates and times |
2021-02-14 |
We often have data files that are not formatted in a convenient way. This is one of those examples, and how we used sed to fix it.
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| Ideas for a new Shadow Coach Draft |
2021-01-18 |
Ideas for organizing new learnings |
| First Thing I Noticed From Daily Meditation |
2021-01-14 |
What happened on that flight back in December 2019? |
| Cancelling Noise Cancellation |
2021-01-08 |
First in a series of random thoughts while walking my dog. |
| Vanishing Volatile |
2019-11-04 |
Working on tests with code that is threaded lead to a situation where we needed to use the volatile keyword, until we didn't.
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| Volatile Blast From the Past Draft |
2019-10-31 |
A memory from the past lead to my finally understanding the volatile keyword |
| Smelly If Statements - if is a code smellDraft |
2019-10-03 |
A look at how we can remove if statements in a particular problem.
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| Create First - Making the impossible, possibleDraft |
2019-04-08 |
How can we clean up code in a legacy code base when continuous integration is not happening? Maintain backwards compatibility by creating first.
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| O(1) habits - I wonder how this idea might impact your daily routine?Draft |
2019-03-12 |
An incomplete idea I working on related to how people navigate code and other such things that seem to relate to DevOps thinking.
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| Springboot2placeholders |
2019-02-13 |
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| DRY In Blogging - More usability, reducing duplication |
2018-09-08 |
Making something more useful for subsequent uses could have lead to duplication, but I'm working on reducing that.
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| Experiments in Css, making Asides collapsible - Allowing for all the things while also appearing to make things shorter |
2018-07-21 |
A live blog that is meant to demonstrated something I want to have.
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| Going slow to go fast - Internal vs. External Awareness |
2018-07-18 |
Random thoughts about internal experience, versus external experiences and going slow to go fast inspired by a car pulled over my a motorcycle cop.
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| Getting my blog Setup |
2018-07-16 |
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| Wonderful Surprise |
2012-07-06 |
Nice feedback on a C++ book I've toyed with |
| Spring AOP |
2012-07-01 |
Quick overview of getting Spring Aop up and running |
| Yet another blog attempt |
2012-06-26 |
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