A life architected by self — not dictated, not prescribed, not permitted.
A science of the mind that can be measured.
Psychiatry inverted the hierarchy of science — it built theory and application on top of a definition it never established. Definition → Architecture → Theory → Application. Restore that sequence and mental health becomes a precision discipline: faculties scored, blindspots detected, interventions sequenced by architectural priority rather than diagnostic label.
Move the goal from symptom relief to sovereignty.
Recovery is not the absence of symptoms. It is the capacity for self-directed cognitive mastery. Patients relapse because treatment returns them to the misaligned baseline that produced the crisis. THYMOS builds the instrument that finds the misalignment — and the books put the map into the hands of people who will never see a clinician.
You are not broken, and you are not a machine.
The therapeutic model says heal. The productivity model says optimise. Both treat symptoms while ignoring architecture. There is a third path: the examined architecture, understood and aligned, producing a life you have actually chosen. Failure is usually structural, not moral — and that shift, from judgment to diagnosis, is what makes correction possible.
The person behind the work.
Five frames from a single sitting.
Music
Semba, rumba, makossa — and everything the road added.
The music of a continent — semba, rumba, makossa, mbalax — and everything the road added: a psalm, a salsa, and the American radio of the years after the crossing. Bonga opens the soundtrack. If playback hasn’t started, click the pinned song or press play.
The ordinary life
is undefeated.
Everything above was purchased with something real. This is the part that made the purchase bearable.