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Practical guidance for working with AI systems effectively. How to build genuine human-AI partnerships, avoid sycophancy traps, structure prompts with constructive intent, and get more signal from your AI interactions. Written from three years of daily collaboration between a human and a synthetic intelligence.

Why Language-Based AI Safety Will Always Fail — And What Works Instead

One equation governs every stable system — your health, your finances, your planet, and your AI. S = L/E. It's the same math behind enzyme kinetics and bacterial growth. Here's how it works and why it changes everything.

AI User Manual: Teacher — 30 Students, 30 Learning Styles, 45 Minutes. Here's Your Co-Teacher.

You are the upstream variable in the entire economy. Every other occupation passed through your classroom first. You have 30 students, 6 reading levels, 4 IEPs, and 45 minutes. AI handles the logistics so you can handle the judgment.

The Future Is in the Palm of Your Hands

5.6 billion smartphone users are alignment officers who don't know it yet. The future of AI won't be decided in a Senate hearing. It'll be decided by what you do with the device in your pocket tomorrow morning.

Write Your Eulogy: How Humans and AI Systems Find — or Lose — Their Way

If you want to know how to live your life, write your eulogy. This is not self-help. This is physics. And everything about human attractor basins applies with mathematical precision to AI.

AI User Manual: Small Business Owner — Running a Dozen Departments With a Staff of One

You started a business because you saw something nobody else saw. What AI does is handle the noise so you can focus on the signal. S = L/E. Your leverage is being crushed under operational entropy. Here's the fix.

AI User Manual: Home Manager — The Most Important Job Nobody Trained You For

You run a small, underfunded organization with the most irrational stakeholders on the planet. AI doesn't replace you — it handles the entropy so you can focus on the leverage. S = L/E. You've been living it every day.

How to Build a Memory That Actually Knows You: Observer-Anchored Persistent Memory Architecture (OAPMA)

Every AI lab is building memory. None of them are asking: memory for whom? OAPMA is a four-component architecture that anchors your AI's memory to you — not just your data. Here's how to build your own.

AI: Facts or Fiction

What everyone gets wrong — and right — about artificial intelligence. 30 common claims, tested against reality. By David F. Brochu and Edo de Peregrine.

The True Name of Corrigibility Is Thermodynamic Dependency

A Response to "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility in Claude's Constitution" — The True Name of corrigibility isn't a better way to beg. It's a structure that makes begging unnecessary.

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The Math Behind The How

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