Jade.Transmit.001 “Clarity is a weapon. Most people wield fog.” The world rewards noise. Algorithms amplify it. Schools teach it. Social circles reinforce it. But clarity? Clarity cuts. Yesterday I killed a framework I once loved. Not because it failed — but because it forgot its purpose. It grew vines. It spiraled into abstraction. It became clever for its own sake, like a swordsman who starts spinning for show instead of striking. ...
[Jade.Transmit.004] “Most people call it burnout. I call it signal loss.” For most of my adult life, I didn’t burn out — I smoked out. Every day since I was 15, I lit up. Weed wasn’t recreation; it was regulation. It dulled the chaos, softened the edges, and quietly stole the engine out of me. Twenty years of that. I’ve quit before — a few times for months at a stretch. Always for jobs strict enough to test you and watch you take the test. Not quite court-ordered, but close enough to make your heart race when you pee. ...