Return to the work.
I cannot think my way through a round or a run. I have to do it. The same is true when I study or build. A day moves forward through an action I can repeat, even when the action is small.
John Idowu · ChaseInTech
The work of becoming.
I am building a life across several worlds. The ring, the run, the study, the market, the systems I build and the people around me each ask something different. I want to keep showing up for all of it and make something useful out of what I learn.
Technō ÜbermenschA working philosophy
A life in one frame.Explore World 001 The standard
A harder standard for myself.
I call it Technō Übermensch: deliberate self-overcoming through action, systems and proof. It is a standard I set for myself, never a claim of being above anyone else. The technology matters because it can make a skill useful at a larger scale. The person remains responsible for what it does.
I am drawn to agent harnesses, developer systems, trading and commerce, security research and eventually physical AI. I cannot go deep in all of them at once. In each stretch of work, I have to choose, build something, take it into the world and learn from the result.
How I try to live it
The practice, in five movements.
The body
Build systems I can answer for.
I want my skills to become tools and workflows that are useful beyond a single session. Agents can extend my reach. I still decide what they are allowed to do, check what happened and accept responsibility for the result.
Let the world test it.
Reselling, products and public work put my judgement in front of other people. A plan can be exciting; the outcome tells me what I have actually learned. I want to show the working system and the parts that still need repair.
Keep a life around the work.
I want running with people, friendships, conversations, nights out and the art I make to belong to this life. There is room for ambition and for a community to come back to. The city in my first world holds both.
Choose again.
In the picture, the future is beautiful and almost too bright to take in. I can feel hope and fear in the same frame. Faith, for me, is holding that future in mind and doing the work to meet it. If I had to begin again, I would choose the journey again.
Work you can inspect
What exists so far.
These are published pieces of the practice. Each page shows its own scope and current state. The larger story is still being written.
FilmThe builds and the boxingThe physical and technical practice in a published ChaseInTech video.EngineeringChaser AgentA project page that separates what is demonstrated from what comes next.ResearchTradeSyncA public research case with its current scope and evidence boundary.ArtWorld 001The imagined London scene and the first personal entry behind it.