// latest
April 17, 2026
The Intelligence Tax
Organization isn't a personality trait. It's externalized cognition. Why disorganization taxes a capable mind.
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Apr 21, 2026
Southern Utah
The Bramble
Czech disco ends in Rammstein. Lost in desert scrub at sunset, compass rescue. Drone in a fanny pack.
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// video
LAYNG TV
A life in motion, documented. Wild places, physical edges, van roads.
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MAKING THE VIDEO
Make the video today. The content is the practice.
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// writing
THE LIBRARY
Essays on intelligence, effort, creativity, and the practice of making things.
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ROADS
Dispatches from the road. Where I am. What it is like.
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// music
MUSIC
Songs, mixes, and recordings. Each one with a note on where it came from. On YouTube: @systemscowboy and @unifiedfieldrecordings.
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// explore
FRACTAL STORY ENGINE
Transmissions from the fracture lines. Stories that split into more stories.
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ENGINES
Interactive tools for thinking. Questions, knowledge, orientation, fiction, refusal.
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OPTING OUT
People who looked at the ladder, understood it clearly, and refused to climb it on its own terms.
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PRAYERS
For the healing of the world, and the quiet orientation toward love.
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