Mike Herak
Essays on whatever I can’t stop thinking about - come think along.
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The Synthesis Nobody Writes
Mortimer Adler called reading across many books at once - around a question you bring to them - the highest level of reading. Past a handful of books it stops being thinking and turns into bookkeeping. So I built a tool for the bookkeeping part.
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The Difference Between Productive Obsession and Presence
More of us are replacing idle scrolling with building something of our own - a business, a craft, a second act. That's real progress. But compulsive creating and compulsive consuming can share the same root - an inability to be still.
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Two Maps, One Conversation
I built an emotional-intelligence framework with my AI - each of us creating our own map of what we care about - and it pulled me into the deepest thinking on consciousness I've done.