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A home for rigorous, human-centered thinking about markets, meaning, and modern systems. Read essays, explore frameworks, and subscribe to the Valeon podcast.
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Reflections on Living with Autism
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Reflections on Living with Autism • Valeon
A personal reflection on the sensory, social, and emotional realities of autism—masking, routine, regulation, and the quiet work of building a sustainab…
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December 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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The Prime Effect
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The Prime Effect • Valeon
Modern businesses don’t just sell products—they build systems. From cross-subsidy and loss leaders to subscriptions like Prime, profitability is increas…
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December 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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The Human in the Equation
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The Human in the Equation • Valeon
A reflection on how human experience—memory, agency, language, and narrative—shapes the frameworks we build, and what that means for time, causality, an…
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December 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The Symmetry Compulsion
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The Symmetry Compulsion • Valeon
An essay on why symmetry comforts the mind, how science and mathematics chase invariance, and why asymmetry—through breaking, chirality, primes, and tim…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Meditations on Analysis Paralysis
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Meditations on Analysis Paralysis • Valeon
A meditation on how overthinking disguises itself as wisdom, and how clarity is more often earned through small, reversible steps than discovered throug…
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December 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I use arch, btw
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I use arch, btw • Valeon
Returning to Arch Linux becomes a reminder that good systems don’t shout: they simplify, sharpen, and get out of the way. Through that lens, this post r…
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December 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Socionics: Beyond MBTI
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Socionics: Beyond MBTI • Valeon
A guided walk from Jung’s Psychological Types to MBTI and onward into Socionics—information metabolism, Model A, and why type is less a label than a rel…
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December 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Income in Motion: Introducing GigFin
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Income in Motion: Introducing GigFin • Valeon
An introduction to GigFin, a free and open source income tracking app built for gig workers navigating multiple platforms and seeking clearer insight in…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Chains of Thoughts
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Chains of Thoughts • Valeon
An exploration of the invisible chains that link our thoughts, emotions, and assumptions, and how becoming aware of them can reshape how we see ourselve…
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December 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Hacking, Exploits, and the Hidden Bazaar of Power
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Hacking, Exploits, and the Hidden Bazaar of Power • Valeon
An exploration of how hacking and exploit markets serve not only criminals but also governments, intelligence institutions, and security companies that…
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December 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The Metabolic Pause: How Fasting Lets the Body Heal Itself
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The Metabolic Pause: How Fasting Lets the Body Heal Itself • Valeon
A contemplative exploration of fasting as a metabolic pause that lowers insulin, awakens glucagon and ketones, and gives the liver, brain, and cells the…
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December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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In the Pursuit of Knowledge
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In the Pursuit of Knowledge • Valeon
A reflection on the finite life of the knower against the seemingly unbounded horizon of knowledge, and on what it means to keep learning and speaking i…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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The Rope and the Leap: How Mentality Shapes Reality
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The Rope and the Leap: How Mentality Shapes Reality • Valeon
An exploration of how mentality, self-confidence, and the willingness to cut the internal rope of restraint shapes our actions and the reality we come t…
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November 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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The Discrepancy between the Ideal and the Lived Reality
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The Discrepancy between the Ideal and the Lived Reality • Valeon
Reflections from late-evening delivery rounds on how the gap between how life looks and how it feels reveals a deeper discrepancy between the ideal orde…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The Dollar as Token, Part II: Quantitative Easing, Tightening, and the Dollar’s Burn Mechanism
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The Dollar as Token, Part II: Quantitative Easing, Tightening, and the Dollar’s Burn Mechanism • Valeon
Exploring how quantitative easing and tightening reshape the dollar’s balance-sheet architecture, and how taxation functions as a burn mechanism within…
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November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The Dollar as Token: Rethinking Taxes in a Fiat Age
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The Dollar as Token: Rethinking Taxes in a Fiat Age • Valeon
In a post–gold standard world, the US dollar behaves less like a claim on scarce metal and more like a state-issued token—making taxes less about “fundi…
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November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The Valeon Lemma
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The Valeon Lemma • Valeon
An exploration of the “Valeon Lemma”: when we appeal to genuine uncertainty, intellectual honesty requires us to admit not only feared worst cases, but…
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November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The Rhythm of History
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The Rhythm of History • Valeon
A meditation on the cyclical rhythm of history—how moments like 1918, 1920, and 1929 reveal repeating human patterns of crisis, forgetting, and conseque…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Valeon: Listening in Motion
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Valeon: Listening in Motion • Valeon
A behind-the-scenes tour of Valeon’s new audio and math pipeline—OpenAI TTS, MathJax + Speech Rule Engine, and MFA-powered word-level highlighting—focus…
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November 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The Price of Time: Opportunity Cost and the True Value of Money
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The Price of Time: Opportunity Cost and the True Value of Money • Valeon
Time changes value, and every choice carries a “compared to what?”—a lens that links the time value of money, opportunity cost, and discount rates to re…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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From Laws to Conservation: Newton’s Grammar of Motion

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From Laws to Conservation: Newton’s Grammar of Motion • Valeon
Newton’s three laws as axioms, F=ma as the grammar of change, and how energy and momentum conservation emerge—told with minimal calculus and hands-on ex…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Valeon: A New Name, A Larger We

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Valeon: A New Name, A Larger We • Valeon
The Contemplative Path is now Valeon—a rebrand aligned with strength, clarity, and long-horizon, systems-level thinking. We’re opening submissions, roll…
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November 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM