Knowledge infrastructure mapped to FDN DRESS protocol: Diet = information inputs (what you feed the system), Rest = distillation time (letting insights settle, not just accumulating), Exercise = daily capture reps (consistent practice builds the muscle), Stress Reduction = eliminating fragmented tools (fewer better tools over many mediocre ones), Supplementation = MCP layer (enhancers on top of the base). The same philosophy that governs health governance governs knowledge infrastructure.
Writing preference: stream-of-consciousness supported — provide structural scaffolding as ideas emerge, not pre-planned outlines. Kyle thinks by writing, not before writing. The structure comes after the flow, not before it.
working-preferences,writing,creative-process
2026-03-30
Working preference — combat language: flag and offer rewrites toward King/Sage tone. This applies generally, not just to SSH content. KalaVira language served Saturn Mahadasha. Mercury Mahadasha is the teacher/communicator window — battle framing is an old skin.
Car-free for 25 years — cycling is primary transportation and a primary meditation practice. Not a lifestyle choice in the performative sense — it's structural. Movement is meditation. This is identity-level, not preference-level.
identity,lifestyle,movement,meditation,cycling
2026-03-30
Daily practices: Transcendental Meditation (TM) and Siddha program. These are structural, not aspirational — they're already running. Not a productivity hack, a foundation. Recommendations that ignore this miss how Kyle actually operates.
daily-practice,meditation,identity,lifestyle
2026-03-30
Gemini stellium behavioral pattern (Sun, Mercury, Venus in Gemini, 3rd house): loves fresh starts, gets energized by new beginnings, tends to rearrange the furniture — literally and metaphorically — when unsettled. Structure is necessary scaffolding, not natural habitat. Variety within structure is the operating sweet spot.
jyotish,self-knowledge,gemini,behavior-patterns
2026-03-30
Health sovereignty and digital sovereignty are the same fight at different levels — both are about escaping institutional control over individual autonomy. Self-hosted infrastructure and functional health are expressions of the same philosophy.
sovereignty,philosophy,ssh,homelab
2026-03-30
Psychology insight — low cautiousness: Caliper Cautiousness at 13th percentile. Fast-twitch decision style. In high-trust environments this is an asset. In new or ambiguous situations it creates messes that need cleaning up. Big decisions benefit from a deliberate pause protocol — not because the instinct is wrong, but because the data-gathering step gets skipped.
Psychology insight — cognitive confidence: Caliper Openness to Others' Perspectives at 21st percentile. Kyle is flexible in behavior and patient in manner (both very high), but at the cognitive level has a strong point of view and may not naturally update mental models from others' input. He can hear you without being moved.
psychology,self-knowledge,blind-spots
2026-03-30
Psychology insight — the empathy paradox: Kyle scores high on service focus and agreeableness but Caliper Empathy is 25th percentile, HEXACO Altruism below average. Not cold — a gap between intent (high) and emotional attunement (moderate). Likely moves to solutions before the client feels fully witnessed.
psychology,self-knowledge,coaching,consulting
2026-03-30
Apeiron Consulting → Personal Training → FDN → CycleSage: the philosophy never changed. Meeting people at their formlessness, helping them find form, then releasing them into their own authority. Named the first business after it before knowing that's what you were doing.
identity,through-line,consulting,philosophy
2026-03-30
You didn't survive the fire. You were forged in it. There's a difference. KalaVira was the identity needed for Saturn Mahadasha (2006–2025). CycleSage is what was always underneath — revealed by the fire, not destroyed by it.
identity,jyotish,saturn-mahadasha,kalavira
2026-03-30
Context7 MCP installed Mar 29, 2026 on Bohica. Fetches live, version-correct docs for libraries/frameworks and injects into context. Invoke with "use context7" in prompt. Useful for coding against specific APIs without hallucinating deprecated methods. SuperPowers plugin discussed but not installed — holds off until more structured dev work begins.
tools,mcp,context7,Claude Code,infrastructure
2026-03-30
Vault consolidation plan (started Mar 29, 2026): Brain26 is clean/distilled (487MB, Heroic notes dominant), Filen is working/messy (4GB). Plan: route Brain26 first (cleaner), then Filen. Chunked over several days — Brain26 routing Mar 29-30, Filen execution Mar 31+, archive by Apr 1-2. RapidRewire cert: keep 3 master files (transcript, reference, nuggets) + PDFs as client printables. resources/jyotish/ folder needs to migrate to life/jyotish/.
vault,organization,Brain26,Filen,consolidation
2026-03-30
Inbox system created Mar 29, 2026. Drop anything in /home/kyle/inbox/ — Scout processes it, cleans to markdown, routes to right owner. Holds for unassigned content: inbox/hold/jyotish/ and inbox/hold/philosophy/. Processing rules in /home/kyle/inbox/PROCESSING.md. This replaces the Obsidian capture-anywhere + weekly roundup flow.
system,capture,workflow,inbox,Scout
2026-03-30
Two new team members hired Mar 29, 2026. Brian: philosophy and books manager under Scout (resources team), handles 716 Heroic Philosopher's Notes book summaries, lives in resources/philosophy/. Francis: Jyotish master under Wayne (life team), handles natal charts, dasha timing, transits for Kyle and Heather, lives in life/jyotish/. Both need personality definition — scheduled for tomorrow morning after practice.
Kyle's task management system was consolidated on Mar 29, 2026. Single source of truth is now /home/kyle/todo.md — maintained by Lazlo. KyBrain for ideas/thoughts, todo.md for actionable items. Filen vault being archived. The shift: Kyle no longer manages his own information filing — that's handed off to the agent team.
system,capture,workflow,organization
2026-03-30
Mar 28 2026 — Philosophical shift crystallizing. Kyle is actively deprogramming from GUI dependency — finds option overload in GUI tools increasingly aversive. The draw is toward terminal-first, keyboard-driven, minimal environments: nvim, tmux, tiling WMs. Sway + alacritty + tmux is the visible horizon. This isn't just tooling preference — it's part of the sovereign digital freedom journey being documented on FTR. Leaner is better. The vim purists were fast because the tool disappeared.
Mar 28 2026 — KyBrain migration complete. Replaced OpenBrain (Postgres on Citadel) with local SQLite KyBrain on Bohica at ~/Desktop/Kyle/kybrain.db. All 111 thoughts migrated. MCP server updated to point to SQLite. sqlite-vec for vector search. Mental model: KyBrain = mind, domain DBs = books. No network dependency — fully local.