What belongs here
Self-experiments, notes on attention and perception, learning workflows, memory tools, cognitive load observations, and brain/body performance experiments.
Current records
Advisory Hour · July 27, 2026
Cognition: Metabolizing the Slop
AI can generate software faster than a team can understand it. This essay names the widening gap: cognitive debt.
Read the essay →Advisory Hour · July 9, 2026
Cognition: Anki Flashcards
A practical learning-system reflection preserved with its original source, screenshots, and a clear non-medical framing.
Read the field article →Advisory Hour · May to September 2026
Writing: I went back to writing my own words
What I learned by writing my posts by hand again: the word gym, Minto’s pyramid, paragraphs as universes, and the missing sentence.
Read what I learned →How this section is framed
These are personal experiments and observations, not medical guidance. The useful question is whether a practice improves learning, attention, recovery, or durable performance in real life.