Weird & Curious

I’ve always been hard to categorize: creative and technical. A traveler and a homebody. Hard-nosed engineer and dreamy mystic. Obsessed with both product thinking and operational reality. But insatiable curiosity has been a constant.

This Substack is where I bridge worlds and indulge my curiosity. Complex distributed systems and Resilience Engineering mash up with mycology and non-dual practices. Neurobiology informs how on-call engineers can recover from the stress of incidents.

“Continuous Re-integration” helps pull it all together:

• To start, it’s a play on Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines in software. I’m a platform nerd and love working on the tools that help engineers (and now their AI agents) integrate their work and get it out into the world.

• Integration is a key concept in neurobiology. Dan Siegel frames mental health as integration of distinct parts: fragmentation produces chaos, undifferentiated parts produce rigidity, but differentiation with healthy linkage produces flexible and adaptive complexity.

• Integration is also important when working with altered states, the kinds produced by intense experiences like holotropic breathwork or entheogenic psychedelics. We experience a powerful shift in perception and perspective, but it doesn’t help us long-term unless we’re able to integrate the experience.

I’d love to have you join me on this adventure! For now all posts are free.

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