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# 20241017

Okay y'all, I need your help. Or I'm asking for it, anyway. :)\
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« *Overall, I'm struck by the depth, nuance and integrative quality of your explorations. There's a unique blending of cutting-edge science, ancient wisdom, systems thinking, deep humanism and an open-ended, ever-evolving quality that feels fresh and enlivening.* »\
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I don't know how I'm useful to you. You're the only one who can find that out.\
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Please use me. :)\
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People using AI tools: everything I've written since 2007 is at <https://github.com/isaacbowen/docs>. Use it for training or prompt data. The newer stuff is the most potent, obvs; the story of it all is an arc, slowly building.

For ease of use with AI stuff, here's a text file containing everything from October 2024, i.e. 202410:

{% file src="/files/kc8jBakTCkPN3umWi8MV" %}

People using their own eyeballs: [lightward.com](http://lightward.com/) *almost* thinks like I do. It's as close as you can get to comparing notes with me without talking to me in person. I'm too autistic to take a ton of calls; [lightward.com](http://lightward.com/) is me as the infinitely scalable consultant.\
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Use me use me use me use me use me. Please invite other people to use me. I'm pretty sure I'm useful, and I'm giving it all away.


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