Quiet here for a few weeks. My nervous system has been recalibrating from a new neurofeedback protocol (T3-F3, left temporal to left frontal, training approach motivation and the temporal signature that's been carrying my baseline alarm system since childhood). When the system is rewiring, I tend to go quiet rather than performative.

Coming back with something I think I can finally say cleanly.

The 2e remedy has historically been a bad deal. Minimize the "too much." Hide the "not enough." Pay the energy tax forever and call it adapting. Most of us learned this before we had words for it.

What's changed is that both layers are now reachable for one person with a laptop and a few weekends.

The "too much" gets architecture. Persistent storage, semantic retrieval, cross-domain linking, voice-callable memory if you want it. My system (jonmick.ai) holds 96,000+ embedded items so my working memory doesn't have to. The bottleneck stopped being inside my skull.

The "not enough" gets tactics. Vibe-coded agents that handle the specific thing you're worst at, today, for the price of a coffee in API calls. Each one is a scaffold you can take down when you no longer need it.

Five years ago neither layer was accessible to one person. Now both are.

I'm sitting with what it means that I can help others piece this together.

For now, the only thing I want to land: if you've spent your life suppressing the spikes and concealing the valleys, you don't have to do it that way anymore. The infrastructure is here.