How to Actually Learn Anything Faster
A vision quest through ecological thinking, trail markers for perceptual reorganization, and surrendering the illusion that mastery can be programmed
I’ve spent five years researching the Constraints-Led Approach and Ecological Dynamics. Reading hundreds of papers. Analyzing what works at elite levels. Mapping why a multibillion-dollar industry ignores evidence that’s been available for forty years.
On Tuesday, I gave you the research—the overwhelming evidence that skills emerge from constraint interactions through self-organization, not from technique accumulation through repetition. ↴
The response was immediate. Thousands of you read it. Hundreds sent messages. The pattern was consistent:
“This makes complete sense. But how do I actually do this?”
That question revealed something important. You understand the theory. You see the evidence. But you’re still thinking mechanistically. Still looking for a program to follow. Still wanting steps that guarantee results.
I can’t give you that. Because that’s not how ecology works.
What I can give you is something different: a guided perceptual reorganization. A vision quest through the patterns that emerge when you stop trying to control learning and start navigating constraint space.
That’s what I’ve built in META-MASTERY: The Ecological Art of Learning↴
Not a course in the traditional sense. Not modules to complete or skills to accumulate. A structured exploration designed to shift how you see learning itself—covering acquisition, behavior change, skill development, all through the ecological lens.
Because here’s what I’ve discovered: the people who successfully adopt CLA don’t do it by following better instructions. They do it by fundamentally reconsidering what learning is. By shifting from mechanistic thinking to ecological perception.
That shift is what META-MASTERY facilitates.
I’m opening enrollment now. If you’re reading this newsletter, you’re exactly who I built this for—people who’ve seen the research, understand it’s correct, but need guidance navigating the disorientation of perceptual reorganization.
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Fair warning: this isn’t plug-and-play. It’s not something you use sparingly or apply to specific skills. It’s a fundamental shift in how you perceive reality. Once you see learning ecologically, you can’t unsee it.
Most people won’t take this seriously. They’ll keep seeking programs that promise control.
But if you’re someone who can’t ignore evidence once you’ve seen it—if Tuesday’s research has already started changing how you think about skill development—then you’re probably stuck with this perspective shift whether you wanted it or not.
The question is whether you want to navigate it with guidance or fumble through alone.
Enrollment is open. The code is CALIBRATE. The discount is 30%.
What happens next is up to you.
Now, let’s talk about what actually happens when you try to implement ecological thinking without guidance...
CLA isn’t a technique you apply.
It’s a way of seeing that changes how you move through the world.
Think of it like this: you don’t “apply” psychedelics. You take them and let them shift your perception. The value isn’t in following a trip protocol. It’s in the perceptual reorganization that happens when you stop trying to control the experience and start letting it teach you.
That’s what I’m offering you here. Not a manual. A vision quest.
What I’m about to give you—the frameworks, the guideposts, the patterns to watch for—these aren’t steps to execute. They’re lenses to help you see learning differently. Ways to recognize when you’ve slipped back into control-seeking. Questions that reorient your attention.
You don’t complete this process. You don’t master it. You inhabit it.
And like any genuine perspective shift, it’s going to feel disorienting before it feels natural.
Before we go any further, you need to understand what you’re actually signing up for.
CLA isn’t a training method you use sometimes when it’s convenient. It’s not a tool you pull out for specific skills and put away when you want to relax.
It’s an ecological view of reality.
Traditional thinking treats learning like building a machine. Components that fit together in predetermined ways. Inputs that produce predictable outputs. Problems that have correct solutions.
Ecological thinking treats learning like a forest ecosystem. Interdependent relationships that self-organize. Emergent patterns that can’t be predicted from parts. Solutions that work because they fit the current constraint configuration, not because they’re abstractly “correct.”
These aren’t just different methods. They’re incompatible ontologies.
When you truly adopt an ecological view, you can’t unsee it. You start noticing constraint interactions everywhere. How skills emerge from environmental relationships. How control kills adaptation. How prescribed technique produces brittle competence.
You become functionally unemployable by traditional training systems because you can see what they’re doing wrong and can’t pretend you don’t.
This isn’t hyperbole. I’ve watched this happen to coaches, teachers, learners who go deep enough into ecological thinking. They can’t go back. The traditional approach starts looking like collective delusion.
So when I give you “guideposts” or “frameworks” in what follows, understand what they actually are: temporary scaffolding to help you see the pattern-generating patterns. Training wheels for perceptual reorganization.
Once you see ecologically, you won’t need the frameworks. The principles will be obvious. The constraint manipulations will emerge naturally from reading the situation.
But you’re not there yet. And trying to skip the scaffolding means you’ll just import ecological language into traditional thinking. You’ll manipulate constraints while still seeking control. Practice variability while still monitoring technique. Use external focus cues while still trying to consciously optimize movement.
The frameworks below are designed to catch those contradictions. To help you notice when you’ve drifted from ecological thinking back into mechanistic habits.
Think of them as trail markers on a path through unfamiliar territory. They’re not the destination. They’re not even the path. They’re just signs that say “you’re still heading in the right direction.”
The actual path emerges from how you move through the terrain.
Let me tell you what happens to most people who discover ecological approaches to learning.
They read the research. Makes perfect sense. Cleveland won 64 games by letting constraint interactions teach instead of prescribing technique. The evidence is overwhelming.
So they decide to “implement CLA.”
Already they’ve made the fatal error.
You simply can’t implement ecology. Ecology isn’t a thing you do.
It’s how you see.
But they don’t realize this yet. So they show up ready to manipulate constraints. They’ve read about variability and representative design and external focus. They think they understand.
Day one, they face the skill they’re learning. Mind goes blank.
Not because they don’t know what to do.
Because they’re still trying to do something.
The ecological view doesn’t ask “what should I do?”
It asks “what’s actually happening here? What constraint interactions are generating the current pattern? What happens if I modify this relationship?”
That’s a completely different cognitive mode. Observational rather than instructional. Exploratory rather than prescriptive.
Most people can’t sustain it. The discomfort of not-knowing is too intense. So they revert. Back to following instructions. Back to prescribing technique. Back to seeking control.
They tell themselves “I tried CLA but it didn’t work for me.”
Wrong. They never actually shifted perspective. They just used ecological vocabulary to describe traditional practice.
Real ecological thinking requires surrendering the illusion of control. Accepting that you can’t predict exactly what emerges. Trusting that functional solutions will self-organize when the constraint configuration is right.
Most people won’t do that. Ever.
They’d rather have suboptimal results they can control than optimal results that emerge unpredictably.
If that describes you, stop reading now. Seriously. The rest of this will just frustrate you because you’ll keep trying to turn ecological principles into mechanical procedures.
But if you’re genuinely willing to let perception reorganize—if you can tolerate the disorientation of not-knowing while new patterns emerge—then what follows might help you navigate the transition.
Just remember: these aren’t instructions. They’re invitations to see differently.
Before I give you the guideposts, you need to know how to recognize when you’ve slipped back into traditional thinking without realizing it.
Three traps that reveal you’re still seeking control while using ecological language.
The Optimization Trap
You read about manipulating constraints. So you start trying to find the optimal constraint configuration. The perfect variability level. The ideal practice structure.
You’re still thinking mechanistically. Still believing there’s a “correct” way to practice that you need to discover.
Ecological view: there is no optimal constraint configuration independent of context. What works emerges from the current system state—your skill level, your fatigue, your motivation, the available environment, the specific learning edge you’re exploring right now.
The constraint manipulation that worked yesterday might not work today. The variability level that challenged you last week might be too easy or too hard this week. The environment that forced adaptation in one context might create panic in another.
You can’t optimize in advance. You can only sense and respond.
When you catch yourself searching for the perfect practice protocol, you’ve revealed you’re still thinking traditionally.
Pause.
Ask instead: “What’s actually happening in this practice environment right now? What constraint relationship seems most relevant to explore next?”
The answer emerges from observation, not from optimization.
The Technique Trap (Disguised Edition)
You read about external focus. So you create external focus cues. “Make the ball arc higher” instead of “keep your elbow up.”
But you’re still monitoring whether you’re doing it correctly. Still comparing your movement to an ideal. Still trying to consciously control what should be automatic.
You’ve just moved the technique focus one level up. Instead of monitoring body mechanics, you’re monitoring whether you’re properly using external focus cues.
Same problem. Different disguise.
Ecological view: you don’t “do” external focus. You simply attend to the task goal and let movement self-organize. The moment you’re thinking about whether you’re focusing correctly, you’ve created a new layer of internal monitoring.
This is subtle. It catches almost everyone.
The way through: stop trying to “do CLA correctly.” There is no correct. There’s only what emerges from genuine attention to task effects in varied constraint configurations.
The Progress Trap
You read that CLA accelerates learning. So you start practicing this way and expect measurable improvement faster than traditional methods.
When improvement doesn’t match your expectations, you think something’s wrong. Maybe you’re not manipulating constraints correctly. Maybe you need a better system. Maybe CLA doesn’t work for you.
You’re still measuring progress traditionally. Still expecting linear improvement. Still thinking learning should be predictable.
Ecological view: skill development isn’t linear. It’s punctuated equilibrium. Long plateaus where nothing seems to change, then sudden reorganizations where capabilities emerge that weren’t there before.
The traditional practice you’re comparing to produces steady visible gains in narrow contexts. Ecological practice produces irregular gains that transfer to novel contexts.
You can’t compare them on the same timeline using the same metrics. They’re developing different things.
When you catch yourself frustrated by “lack of progress,” you’ve revealed you’re still thinking mechanistically.
Pause.
Ask instead: “Am I developing adaptive capacity even if isolated metrics don’t show improvement? Am I discovering solutions I wouldn’t have found through traditional practice?”
The answers require honest observation, not metric tracking.
What follows isn’t a system. It’s not a protocol. It’s a collection of patterns I’ve noticed in my own journey and watching others make this perceptual shift.
Some will resonate. Some won’t. Some will be useful now, irrelevant later. Some you’ll need to return to repeatedly.
Treat them like trail markers, not instructions.
Guidepost One: Begin With Whole Movements, Not Component Parts
Traditional thinking decomposes skills. Break them into teachable parts. Master each part. Combine them.
This makes sense mechanistically. It’s completely wrong ecologically.
Skills aren’t combinations of parts. They’re emergent patterns that arise from constraint interactions. The interactions only exist in the whole movement. When you isolate parts, you’re not practicing components of the skill—you’re practicing something else entirely that might not transfer.
So: do the whole thing from the beginning. In simplified form, yes. With support, definitely. But the whole thing.
Want to learn tennis?
Play actual points from day one. Not groundstroke drills. Not serve practice. Points. Where you have to read your opponent, adapt to what happens, solve problems in real-time.
Want to learn programming?
Build actual programs from day one. Not syntax exercises. Not isolated function practice. Programs that do something, even if simple, even if badly.
Want to learn public speaking?
Speak to actual audiences from day one. Not scripts practiced alone. Not technique drills. Real speaking where you have to read the room, hold presence, adapt to reactions.
This feels wrong initially. You’ll feel underprepared. You’ll fail a lot. You’ll want to go back and “properly learn the basics first.”
Don’t.
The basics emerge from engagement with the whole skill under varied constraints. They don’t transfer from isolated practice to whole performance.
This isn’t a step to complete. It’s a lens to maintain: always practice in contexts that preserve the essential constraint interactions, even when simplifying complexity.
Guidepost Two: Notice Which Constraints Actually Shape Emergence
Traditional thinking identifies “the fundamentals” you need to master. The techniques that form the foundation.
Ecological thinking identifies the constraints that actually shape how solutions emerge.
These are different.
In tennis, traditional thinking says you need proper grip, stance, swing path, follow-through. Master the technique, then apply it in play.
Ecological thinking asks: what environmental constraints do expert players adapt to that novices struggle with? Opponent patterns. Court conditions. Ball spin. Pressure timing. Those constraints shape what solutions work.
In programming, traditional thinking says you need proper syntax, design patterns, data structures. Master the concepts, then build projects.
Ecological thinking asks: what constraints do expert coders navigate that novices can’t handle? Unclear requirements. Competing priorities. Legacy code. Deadline pressure. Those constraints shape what solutions work.
For your skill: stop trying to identify “fundamentals to master.” Start identifying “constraints that shape emergence.”
What varies in real performance that forces adaptation? What do experts navigate smoothly that novices struggle with? What environmental relationships define whether solutions work?
Those are your targets for manipulation.
Not because manipulating them teaches specific techniques. Because manipulating them creates the constraint interactions that make functional solutions emerge.
This isn’t a step. It’s a practice of observation: constantly asking “what’s actually constraining functional performance here?” not “what technique should I teach?”
Guidepost Three: Increase Complexity Without Losing Interaction
Traditional thinking progresses linearly. Master level one, move to level two. Each level isolates new complexity until you’ve accumulated all the components.
Ecological thinking progresses through constraint configuration. Start with simplified interactions that preserve essential relationships. Gradually increase complexity while maintaining the interactions.
The difference is subtle but critical.
Traditional: practice groundstrokes in isolation (no opponent), then add opponent behavior (but stationary), then add movement (but predictable patterns), then add variability (but with breaks between points).
Each level removes constraint interactions to isolate specific skills.
Ecological: play simplified games from day one (mini-court, modified scoring, maybe slower balls) but maintain the opponent interaction, the decision-making, the adaptation to what actually happens. Gradually increase complexity (bigger court, normal scoring, regulation balls) but never remove the interactions.
Each level increases difficulty while preserving the constraint relationships that define the skill.
The key insight: you can simplify without isolating. Smaller court is simpler than full court but maintains all the essential interactions. Slower balls are easier than fast balls but preserve the opponent relationship.
Isolation breaks the constraint interactions. Simplification preserves them while reducing cognitive load.
For your skill: identify which constraint interactions are essential—without them, you’re not actually practicing the skill. Then find ways to simplify difficulty that preserve those interactions.
This isn’t a step. It’s a navigation principle: you’re constantly adjusting complexity while refusing to isolate.
Guidepost Four: What Happens When You Stop Trying to Look Right
Traditional thinking monitors technique. Am I doing it correctly? Does my movement match the ideal? What should I fix?
This creates performance anxiety. Internal focus. Conscious control of processes that should be automatic.
Ecological thinking attends to effects. Did that work? What changed? What happens if I try this?
The difference produces completely different learning experiences.
When you monitor technique, attention goes inward. To body mechanics. To whether you’re executing properly. Movement becomes effortful, deliberate, fragile under pressure.
When you attend to effects, attention goes outward. To environmental responses. To task outcomes. Movement becomes automatic, adaptive, robust under pressure.
But here’s what makes this difficult: attending to effects means accepting that your movement might look wrong. Might violate proper technique. Might seem inefficient.
Most people can’t tolerate that. They’ve been trained to value looking correct over getting results. To prioritize proper form over functional adaptation.
You have to let that go.
Your movement should look however it needs to look to satisfy the current constraint configuration. Sometimes that matches textbook technique. Often it doesn’t.
If you’re genuinely attending to task effects—really paying attention to outcomes rather than monitoring your own body—your nervous system will organize movement that works. Might not be pretty. Might not be orthodox. But it will work.
The practice: notice every time you think “am I doing this right?” That’s the signal you’ve shifted to internal focus. Redirect immediately to task effects. “What happened? What changed? What am I trying to make happen?”
This isn’t a step. It’s a continuous reorientation of attention, probably hundreds of times per practice session, until external focus becomes default.
Guidepost Five: When Variability Feels Like Chaos
Traditional thinking controls variables. Isolate one thing to work on. Keep everything else constant. This makes progress measurable.
Ecological thinking varies constraints systematically. Change things constantly. Prevent identical repetitions. This makes adaptation necessary.
To people trained traditionally, this looks like chaos. No structure. No focus. Just random variation.
Wrong. There’s tremendous structure. Just not the kind you’re used to.
You’re not varying randomly. You’re varying strategically to prevent your nervous system from finding one solution and rehearsing it. To force continuous exploration of the solution space. To develop perception of what matters versus what’s just convention.
But you’re not prescribing which solutions to discover. You’re creating conditions where discovery becomes necessary.
This feels unstable. Traditional practice feels productive because you’re repeating what works. You see immediate improvement in the specific context you’re practicing.
Ecological practice feels unproductive because you’re constantly changing contexts. Each variation feels like starting over. You don’t see immediate improvement in any single context.
That’s exactly the point.
You’re not optimizing performance in one context. You’re developing adaptive capacity across contexts.
The test of whether variability is working: are you attempting different solutions? Or are you trying to force the same solution to work in different contexts?
If you’re always solving problems the same way regardless of constraint configuration, your variability isn’t actually varying what matters. It’s just noise.
If you’re discovering different solutions as constraints change, the variability is teaching.
This isn’t a step. It’s a constant calibration: enough variability to prevent solution rehearsal, not so much that you can’t process what’s happening.
Guidepost Six: The Plateau Is the Process
Traditional thinking expects progress. Each practice session should show improvement. Each week should bring measurable gains.
When progress stops, something’s wrong. Need to fix the training. Find what’s blocking improvement. Get back on the growth curve.
Ecological thinking expects plateaus. Long periods where nothing seems to change. Where you’re working hard but not improving by obvious metrics.
These aren’t failures. They’re necessary phases of reorganization.
Your nervous system is exploring the solution space. Testing variations. Building perceptual attunement. Developing constraint sensitivity. This work happens below conscious awareness.
Then suddenly—seemingly out of nowhere—a capability emerges that wasn’t there before. You can do something you couldn’t do yesterday. Not because you practiced it specifically. Because the system reorganized around a more functional pattern.
Punctuated equilibrium. Stable states interrupted by rapid phase transitions.
This is how complex systems develop. It’s how children learn to walk. It’s how language emerges. It’s how all genuine skill development happens when you’re not artificially forcing progress through rigid technique training.
But you have to tolerate not-knowing. Tolerate apparent lack of progress. Trust that exploration is happening even when you can’t see results.
Most people can’t do this. They hit a plateau, panic, start changing things. Try different methods. Seek new instruction. Anything to feel like they’re making progress.
This interrupts the reorganization process. They never reach the phase transition where new capabilities emerge.
The practice: when you hit a plateau, that’s the signal to maintain course. Keep varying constraints. Keep exploring. Trust the process even when progress isn’t visible.
This isn’t a step. It’s a faith practice: believing that systems self-organize toward functional patterns when constraint configurations support exploration.
Guidepost Seven: Reading System State, Not Following Programs
Traditional thinking follows programs. Monday is technique day. Wednesday is conditioning. Friday is application. The program tells you what to do.
Ecological thinking reads system state. What’s my current capacity? What’s my fatigue level? What constraint exploration seems most relevant right now? The system state tells you what to explore.
These produce completely different practice experiences.
Programs are predictable. You know what you’re doing next week. You can plan progression. You can measure adherence.
System state is unpredictable. You don’t know what tomorrow’s practice needs until tomorrow arrives and you read the current configuration.
This freaks people out. They want a plan. Want to know the structure in advance. Want certainty about what they’re building toward.
You have to let that go.
The plan emerges from engagement. You practice. You notice what’s happening. You sense which constraint manipulations would create productive challenge right now. You try them. You observe results. You adjust.
Rinse and repeat. Forever.
No endpoint. No completion. Just continuous exploration of constraint space as your capacities develop.
This isn’t inefficient. It’s infinitely more efficient than following generic programs that can’t possibly account for your specific system state at this specific moment.
But it requires tuning into subtle signals. Noticing when you’re fresh versus fatigued. When you’re eager versus resistant. When challenge feels productive versus overwhelming.
Most people ignore these signals. They follow the program regardless of system state. Then wonder why some sessions feel productive and others feel like pushing rope.
The practice: before every session, pause. Read your current state. Ask what kind of constraint exploration would be most valuable right now. Let the answer emerge from honest assessment, not from predetermined plans.
This isn’t a step. It’s a continuous attunement to system dynamics rather than adherence to external programs.
You’re probably waiting for me to tell you exactly what to do. The specific constraint manipulations for your skill. The precise variability protocols. The concrete implementation schedule.
I can’t give you that.
Not because I’m withholding. Because it can’t exist.
The constraint manipulations that support your learning at your current development level in your specific context can’t be determined in advance. They emerge from reading your system state and the available environment.
But let me show you what the ecological approach looks like in practice so you understand the pattern.
Say you’re learning programming. Here’s how traditional versus ecological practice might differ:
Traditional Programming Practice: Monday: Complete tutorial chapters 5-7 Wednesday: Practice exercises from chapter 7 Friday: Build project following tutorial instructions Sunday: Review and fix bugs in prescribed project
Structure is external. You follow the program. Progress is measured by chapters completed.
Ecological Programming Practice:
You show up ready to code. You read your system state—fresh? Fatigued? Frustrated from work? Excited about an idea?
You read available constraints—time available? Collaboration partners? Novel problems to explore?
Based on that reading, you decide which constraint configurations to explore today.
Maybe you’re fresh with two hours—perfect for tackling a problem type you’ve never seen before with a tight time-box that forces decision-making under pressure.
Maybe you’re fatigued with thirty minutes—better for refactoring existing code where familiarity reduces cognitive load but you still have to make improvement decisions.
Maybe a friend is available—ideal for pair programming where you have to explain your thinking in real-time while navigating their different approach.
Maybe you’re stuck on yesterday’s problem—time to explore it from a completely different angle, maybe with restrictions that force creative solutions (can’t use X library, must optimize for Y, etc.).
No program told you what to do. You read the configuration and sensed which exploration would be most valuable.
Tomorrow you’ll read again. The configuration will be different. Different constraints will be most relevant.
This is what I mean by system state navigation rather than program adherence.
You can’t prescribe it. You can only develop the perceptual sensitivity to read what’s needed and the trust to follow what emerges.
Most people reading this will not adopt ecological thinking.
They’ll read it. Think “interesting perspective.” Maybe try a few things. Then default back to seeking control through traditional methods.
Why?
Because ecological thinking requires epistemic humility that most people refuse to accept.
You have to admit you can’t predict what emerges. Can’t control the learning process. Can’t optimize in advance. Can’t measure progress traditionally.
You have to trust that systems self-organize. That your nervous system is smarter than your conscious planning. That functional solutions emerge from constraint interactions without you prescribing them.
Most people would rather have the illusion of control than the reality of emergence.
They’d rather follow a program that produces predictable mediocrity than navigate uncertainty that produces unpredictable capability.
So they’ll continue asking for steps. For protocols. For the “right way” to implement CLA.
And they’ll miss the entire point.
There is no right way. There are constraint configurations that support exploration. There are perceptual shifts that change how you read situations. There are navigation principles that help you sense and respond.
But there’s no program to follow. No technique to master. No system to implement.
Just a different way of seeing that changes everything.
Here’s what I want you to understand before you finish reading this:
The “guideposts” I gave you above aren’t optional tactics you can pick and choose from. They’re not independent practices you can apply separately.
They’re all the same insight, expressed differently.
Skills emerge from constraint interactions through self-organization.
That’s the whole thing. Everything else follows from genuinely understanding that sentence.
If you see learning that way—if you truly perceive reality as emergent patterns arising from constraint relationships—then you can’t practice traditionally anymore. It would be like trying to unsee an optical illusion after you’ve recognized the pattern.
The constraint manipulations become obvious. The variability necessity becomes clear. The external focus becomes natural. The plateau tolerance becomes possible.
Not because you’re following steps. Because you’re seeing differently.
But if you’re still seeing learning as skill accumulation through repetition—if you’re trying to bolt CLA onto traditional thinking—then none of the guideposts will help. You’ll just use ecological language to describe traditional practice.
So the real question isn’t “how do I implement CLA?”
It’s “am I willing to fundamentally reconsider what learning is?”
Most people aren’t. That’s fine. Traditional training produces competent mediocrity reliably. For most purposes, competent mediocrity is enough.
But if you’re someone who can’t unsee patterns once you’ve recognized them—if reading about constraint interactions and emergent self-organization has already started changing how you perceive skill development—then you’re probably stuck with ecological thinking now whether you wanted it or not.
Welcome to the vision quest.
The trail markers above might help you navigate. Or they might not. The path emerges from how you move through the terrain, not from following directions.
The only certainty: you can’t go back to not-seeing once you’ve seen.
The research has been clear for forty years. Skills emerge from constraint interactions through self-organization.
The Cavaliers won 64 games with pool noodles and ecological thinking.
Surgical residents learn 31% faster with variable constraints.
Programmers develop adaptive capacity 34% more quickly through representative design.
The evidence is overwhelming. The mechanisms are understood. The proof exists at the highest levels.
What’s missing isn’t better research. It’s people willing to see differently.
Most will read this and change nothing. A few will recognize they’ve already started seeing constraint interactions everywhere. That they can’t go back to not-knowing.
For those few: you’re not implementing a method. You’re navigating a perceptual reorganization.
The vision quest continues. The trail markers are mapped. The path emerges from how you move through the terrain.
You can’t unsee patterns once you’ve recognized them.
The only question is what you do next.
—Sam












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