Someone who once attended a meditation class I taught called my work AI slop.I didn’t argue. I saved it.This episode isn’t a defense of artificial intelligence, and it isn’t a productivity flex. It’s an honest look at how I actually think and write — through handwritten chaos, half-formed ideas, panic, mysticism, coffee spills, and a process that looks nothing like efficiency.Sometimes that process includes a machine.Not to generate thoughts for me, but to reflect them back — faster, clearer, and occasionally in ways that force me to confront what I actually mean.Not magic. Just legibility. My confusion spell-checked. My chaos folded into something readable.Every tool that ever made expression easier was accused of being impure.The typewriter. The word processor. Editors. Spellcheck. This one is no different. What people often react to isn’t automation — it’s the removal of visible suffering. We don’t trust clarity unless we can see the sweat.When I use AI, it doesn’t erase my thinking. It challenges it. Sometimes it misunderstands me beautifully. Sometimes it saves me from my own over-philosophizing. Sometimes it just sits there while I fall apart mid-sentence — which, honestly, is what most good editors do.The madness is mine.The coherence is shared.And no — this isn’t an AI voice.Just human emotion, divine confusion, one very judgmental cup of coffee, and a machine that politely declined to take credit.

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Source Code: A Standing Note on AI Use in 2025 | Zak El Fassi | Systems Engineering for the Agentic AI AgeIf this resonates and you want a quieter place to keep thinking together, you’re welcome to join the community or explore more work here:🔗 Discord: https://discord.gg/dXKjhZrZmM🔗 Website: https://idiotmystic.comNo pressure. Just presence.---AUDIOI Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/dtv/Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Meditation is often framed as relaxation or spirituality.This episode looks at it as training.Across sports, military, academia, creative fields, and business, high performers are using meditation, breathwork, and visualization to improve measurable outcomes — faster reaction times, greater endurance, better decisions under pressure, stronger focus, emotional regulation, and improved recovery and sleep.This is an evidence-based overview of how meditation is being applied in high-stakes environments where performance matters.We cover research findings, real-world case studies, and the specific techniques most commonly used — from mindfulness and focused attention, to breathwork, visualization, and recovery-focused practices.The goal here isn’t to mystify meditation or oversell it. It’s to show, plainly, why people who rely on their minds under pressure are treating mental training with the same seriousness as physical training.If you’re skeptical but curious, this episode is for you.Citations and studies referenced in this episode are linked in the accompanying blog post.https://idiotmystic.com/f/how-meditation-boosts-performance-for-athletes-soldiers-ceos----Almost in F - Tranquillity by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100394Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Most people treat resistance like a problem to eliminate.

What if it’s the training ground instead?

This episode explores what happens when the thing blocking you isn’t failure — it’s feedback.

When the friction that keeps returning isn’t a sign to quit, but a signal shaping a capacity you don’t have yet.

I talk about resistance as a kind of gym. About learning to hold recurring difficulty without flinching. About why smooth paths rarely build anything durable.

There’s also a quiet conversation here about attention — the kind that doesn’t announce itself.

The screenshots.

The private messages.

The readers and listeners who never engage publicly but carry the work into safer rooms.

Silence isn’t always absence.

Sometimes it’s encrypted traffic.

We touch on contrarian questions, not as hot takes, but as operating systems.

The kind that bend paths, get you uninvited, and help map where the real voltage is in a creative network.

This is also about building in imperfect conditions.

Writing in chaos.

Recording wherever you are.

Publishing open instead of waiting for control.

Letting systems learn instead of trying to pose as finished.

If you’re creating, thinking, or building anything that feels slow, quiet, or unseen — this episode is for you.

Treat resistance like a coach, not a cop.

Trust the quiet audience.

Ask the sideways question.

Choose meaning over control.

That’s the practice.

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