Peter Wyro
@peterwyro.bsky.social
Strategist, Entrepreneur, Dad, Dog-Person, Science Junkie, MBA, liked the ending of LOST.
We of Dawn. Chapter 5, The Blood Reader.
It's how authoritarians start to engineer the process of determining who's pure and who's not.
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It's how authoritarians start to engineer the process of determining who's pure and who's not.
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We of Dawn 1-5: The Blood Reader
Those who failed the test tried to hide their disappointment. Those who passed swelled with pride.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
We of Dawn. Chapter 5, The Blood Reader.
It's how authoritarians start to engineer the process of determining who's pure and who's not.
open.substack.com/pub/peterwyr...
It's how authoritarians start to engineer the process of determining who's pure and who's not.
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We of Dawn: Chapter 4. The Claim.
Virgil sees a path to authoritarian rule.
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Virgil sees a path to authoritarian rule.
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We of Dawn 1-4: The Claim
He’s creating a class,” she said. “Those who belong and those who don’t. And he gets to decide which is which.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
We of Dawn: Chapter 4. The Claim.
Virgil sees a path to authoritarian rule.
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Virgil sees a path to authoritarian rule.
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We of Dawn, (01-01) First of Dark, Part 1.
First of Dark scraped. First of Dark climbed. He clawed through root and soil until he emerged into the World-Above.
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WOD is an allegorical fable about societal decay set in a historical ecological disaster.
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First of Dark scraped. First of Dark climbed. He clawed through root and soil until he emerged into the World-Above.
--
WOD is an allegorical fable about societal decay set in a historical ecological disaster.
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We of Dawn 1-1: First of Dark, Part 1
No light. No flowers. No creatures, and no song. Only the cold stars watching. Only stones growing toward an empty sky.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We of Dawn, (01-01) First of Dark, Part 1.
First of Dark scraped. First of Dark climbed. He clawed through root and soil until he emerged into the World-Above.
--
WOD is an allegorical fable about societal decay set in a historical ecological disaster.
peterwyro.substack.com/p/we-of-dawn...
First of Dark scraped. First of Dark climbed. He clawed through root and soil until he emerged into the World-Above.
--
WOD is an allegorical fable about societal decay set in a historical ecological disaster.
peterwyro.substack.com/p/we-of-dawn...
I'm writing an allegorical fable set in 1960's Australia dealing with the ecological disaster of the overpopulation of rabbits, amid a backdrop of mythology, fascism, and betrayal that will feel familiar and haunting.
We of Dawn: Prologue
The seeds of warning are present at all times. Not just when their flowers bloom and their numbers spread until all the color of the meadow is theirs.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm writing an allegorical fable set in 1960's Australia dealing with the ecological disaster of the overpopulation of rabbits, amid a backdrop of mythology, fascism, and betrayal that will feel familiar and haunting.
Pie-Friday. Everyone brings leftovers; partially empty wine bottles, turkey scraps, pie with pieces missing. Whatever would otherwise sit in your fridge getting sadder by the day. The whole point is to be with people you have no obligation
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November 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Pie-Friday. Everyone brings leftovers; partially empty wine bottles, turkey scraps, pie with pieces missing. Whatever would otherwise sit in your fridge getting sadder by the day. The whole point is to be with people you have no obligation
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Three memories from the 1980s live in me like obligations: the couple I didn't defend, the summer I was the minority, the friend whose name I can't remember but whose tears I still see. They don't absolve me.
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White and Privileged in America
When you’re living in a country that had legal slavery for 300 years and another century of legalized discrimination, the vestiges don’t just disappear overnight.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Three memories from the 1980s live in me like obligations: the couple I didn't defend, the summer I was the minority, the friend whose name I can't remember but whose tears I still see. They don't absolve me.
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Be Proud of Someone
It will cost you nothing and it might last forever.
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It will cost you nothing and it might last forever.
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Be Proud of Someone
It will cost you nothing
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November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Be Proud of Someone
It will cost you nothing and it might last forever.
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It will cost you nothing and it might last forever.
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Humans were a fever, not a fatal disease. Intense but brief and survivable. The Earth has endured worse; impacts that vaporized oceans, ice ages that lasted millions of years. You were never writing the final chapter. You were barely a paragraph.
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The Patient Earth
Given enough time, given enough pressure, given enough opportunity, life finds solutions we never anticipated.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Humans were a fever, not a fatal disease. Intense but brief and survivable. The Earth has endured worse; impacts that vaporized oceans, ice ages that lasted millions of years. You were never writing the final chapter. You were barely a paragraph.
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The Replacements: Sandra. She gave him the bullets. She showed him the gun. She dared him to pull the trigger. He always stood there in silence, fighting back tears. And then she disappeared for four days and came back KIND and HELPFUL and UNDERSTANDING.
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The Replacements: Sandra
Wasn’t this what he’d wanted? A partner who didn’t scream? Who didn’t lie? Who didn’t make him feel like he was drowning?
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November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Replacements: Sandra. She gave him the bullets. She showed him the gun. She dared him to pull the trigger. He always stood there in silence, fighting back tears. And then she disappeared for four days and came back KIND and HELPFUL and UNDERSTANDING.
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"Something's wrong with you," his mother said, and she was right but not how she meant. Sixty-five years of people learning the same lesson: make yourself small, make yourself useful, make yourself gone.
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Malignant
'Something's wrong with you,
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November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"Something's wrong with you," his mother said, and she was right but not how she meant. Sixty-five years of people learning the same lesson: make yourself small, make yourself useful, make yourself gone.
hi.switchy.io/malignant
hi.switchy.io/malignant
I fell from the sky to observe them, but I became their dumping ground instead. A stranger who absorbed suffering until the sheer volume of human experience cracked me open. When I dissolved into desert glass, I left them with the only real gift: their own grief.
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The Memory Thief
As the crowds grew, so did the weight. I carried the grief of thousands now, their shame and fear and fury carefully catalogued in the spaces between my thoughts.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I fell from the sky to observe them, but I became their dumping ground instead. A stranger who absorbed suffering until the sheer volume of human experience cracked me open. When I dissolved into desert glass, I left them with the only real gift: their own grief.
hi.switchy.io/memory-thief
hi.switchy.io/memory-thief
"You better watch out or she'll end up playing softball," the woman whispered, as if blue onesies were gateways to becoming lesbians. Only in Oklahoma, I thought. But cycles of cruelty are everywhere, street fights, brain injuries, war trauma passed down like artifacts.
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All of 'These
When the music stops, she throws wherever she wants. She laughs. Her husband laughs. No matter where the blade lands, everyone laughs. Even the person pierced by the blade laughs, apologizing…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"You better watch out or she'll end up playing softball," the woman whispered, as if blue onesies were gateways to becoming lesbians. Only in Oklahoma, I thought. But cycles of cruelty are everywhere, street fights, brain injuries, war trauma passed down like artifacts.
hi.switchy.io/all-stories-...
hi.switchy.io/all-stories-...
I fell from the sky to observe, but I became their dumping ground. A stranger who absorbed suffering until the volume of human experience cracked me open. When I dissolved into desert glass, I left them with the only real gift: their own grief, where it always belonged.
hi.switchy.io/memory-thief
hi.switchy.io/memory-thief
The Memory Thief
As the crowds grew, so did the weight. I carried the grief of thousands now, their shame and fear and fury carefully catalogued in the spaces between my thoughts.
hi.switchy.io
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I fell from the sky to observe, but I became their dumping ground. A stranger who absorbed suffering until the volume of human experience cracked me open. When I dissolved into desert glass, I left them with the only real gift: their own grief, where it always belonged.
hi.switchy.io/memory-thief
hi.switchy.io/memory-thief
An obvious homage to the most famous doctor from my childhood, but packaged in a new rhyme and reason and lesson.
One Lie, Two. Red Lie, Blue
The lies started growing with each heated word, Red sprouted bright feathers like some righteous bird. Blue oozed and expanded like shadowy goo, Both filling the kitchen, what else could they do?
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November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
An obvious homage to the most famous doctor from my childhood, but packaged in a new rhyme and reason and lesson.
In honor of Halloween. It's a cautionary tale. It's a story about good intentions. It's about kindness and cruelty and all of the things that make us human. And it's about robots.
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The Kindness Protocol
Marcus looked at his creation, this beautiful amalgamation of hydraulics and hope, conscience and code. “Something kinder than I deserved to make.”
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October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
In honor of Halloween. It's a cautionary tale. It's a story about good intentions. It's about kindness and cruelty and all of the things that make us human. And it's about robots.
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Not all influencers are equal, obviously. Implementing a framework to navigate brand influencer hierarchies isn't always intuitive.
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Navigating Influence in Brand Communities
Smart community management means looking at members based on their actual influence and what they contribute.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Not all influencers are equal, obviously. Implementing a framework to navigate brand influencer hierarchies isn't always intuitive.
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This is about lies and betrayal. It will be familiar. At some point in your life, you have crossed it's path.
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A River of Lies
Truth isn’t theirs to own or control. It belongs to all of us.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is about lies and betrayal. It will be familiar. At some point in your life, you have crossed it's path.
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I'm writing a series of vignettes about regrets. What's one that you can share?
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Regret Stories: Thomas
He settles in my chest when I see another student hover, another careful pause, another set of swollen eyes.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I'm writing a series of vignettes about regrets. What's one that you can share?
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Some things end and we don’t want to share our grief with anyone. But in these final 8 minutes and twenty seconds we might find peace in the moment that we will all share together. And we get the chance to imagine, what happens next.
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Eight Minutes and Twenty Seconds
It was far more likely that we’d create our own extinction event than accept an invitation to one. And this is one that would offer no escape.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Some things end and we don’t want to share our grief with anyone. But in these final 8 minutes and twenty seconds we might find peace in the moment that we will all share together. And we get the chance to imagine, what happens next.
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This is one of my favorite personal essays. It’s about alienation, in more ways than one.
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The Alien
Seven She's seven years old, sitting at the edge of the playground.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is one of my favorite personal essays. It’s about alienation, in more ways than one.
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Odd. I just wrote about this.
Without Jupiter, we wouldn’t exist. Gas giant saved Earth from plunging into the Sun, say scientists www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/jupiter...
Without Jupiter, we wouldn’t exist. Gas giant saved Earth from plunging into the Sun, say scientists www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/jupiter...
Without Jupiter, we wouldn’t exist. Gas giant saved Earth from plunging into the Sun, say scientists | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Jupiter saved Earth early in the Solar System's history, and may also explain a longstanding mystery about the formation of meteorites.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Odd. I just wrote about this.
Without Jupiter, we wouldn’t exist. Gas giant saved Earth from plunging into the Sun, say scientists www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/jupiter...
Without Jupiter, we wouldn’t exist. Gas giant saved Earth from plunging into the Sun, say scientists www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/jupiter...
More insights about incorporating or modeling the Big 5 Personality framework with your AI System Personas:
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The Importance of Your AI’s Personality Rubik
Every interaction with AI is fundamentally a communication challenge, not a technical one. And communication always involves personality dynamics.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
More insights about incorporating or modeling the Big 5 Personality framework with your AI System Personas:
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This is about how you can better integrate psychological traits and competencies with your ai prompts for significantly improved results.
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Psychological Traits for Better AI Prompting
When you understand how human traits create competencies, you unlock something valuable. You can mirror that same architecture in your AI interactions.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is about how you can better integrate psychological traits and competencies with your ai prompts for significantly improved results.
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