Notes on the Notes
For anyone who found one note without the rest.
What the Glitches Are
A series of short notes appears here under the heading “The Glitches Series.” Each one names a single, specific moment.
The exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep. The thing you handled again, with a different person, in a different situation, but somehow the same outcome. The thing you know exactly how to do, have known for a while, and still haven’t done. The feeling that followed you when you changed the job, the city, the relationship. The thing you only saw clearly three months later, when in the moment nothing was visible at all.
None of these notes explain what’s happening. They were never meant to. Each one just points at something and leaves it there, because the pointing is the point. Most people move through these moments without ever stopping to ask what they’re made of. The notes are an invitation to stop, just for a second, and look.
Taken together, they trace one underlying observation: the same pattern shows up again and again, across different people, different jobs, different cities, different decades of a life, and the common thread running through all of it is not bad luck. It’s something in the person experiencing it. Not as blame. As information.
There’s a signal underneath most of these moments, something that knows before the analytical mind catches up. Sometimes it’s heard in time. Often it isn’t, not because the person is careless, but because the instrument that reads that signal hasn’t been developed enough yet to catch it when it matters.
That’s the whole territory the Glitches notes circle. Not a diagnosis. Not a fix. Just the naming of something that was probably already half-noticed, lived with, and never quite looked at directly.
Why the Next Series Looks Somewhere Else
Once something like this has a shape, even a faint one, the natural next step is to go looking for an answer. A book. A method. Someone who seems to have already figured it out.
That instinct is reasonable. It’s also worth looking at honestly before following it.
A second series, “The Industry Series,” looks at the landscape of things on offer, the books, the courses, the frameworks, the teachers, and asks a plain question: why does so much of it, even when it’s well-intentioned and built on real research, still not reach the thing that was just named. Not because it’s dishonest. Because of how much of it was built, what it can see, what it’s set up to offer, and who actually carries the responsibility when it doesn’t work.
That series doesn’t end in an answer either. It ends in a clearer view of the problem space, which turns out to be most of what was missing in the first place.
If you found one of the Industry Series notes first, this is the broader context behind it. Read in any order. Each piece is meant to hold up on its own.