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Phases of Systems: Ascent, Descent, Renewal, and Return

1 Field notes from the inside of a Systems theory

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Project Straylight
Jul 17, 2025
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Looking back, I used to think all of this was just a thought experiment. An indulgence. Maybe ego. But maybe, something deeper. I’ve been building pieces of this framework since I was a teenager, scribbling things I didn’t have names for yet—things I learned to label through my own lens of experience and study. It’s why you’ll see terms like feedback loops, coherence structures, and entropy fields appear across disciplines in my work. Back then, I didn’t know that’s what they were. I didn’t know if what I was doing was even real. But I could feel it in my bones—something about the world felt off, like it was running a script nobody remembered writing.

For a long time, I kept all of this quiet. I don’t have a PhD. I’m not faculty. I haven’t even finished my undergrad quite yet. This work felt too out-of-place. Too much. I didn’t think anyone would take it seriously. For a time, I had trouble taking it seriously myself. And when I tried to explain it, peopl…

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