Declared Perspective

My name is Daniel B. Newman. I am a serial entrepreneur who enjoys the process of creation. I write without academic credentials or institutional support. I’d rather say so at the outset than let anything here be mistaken for an authority it doesn’t claim. When I draw on a body of work, I try to do so honestly, on its own terms, and without misapplying what I take from it. I’m not standing above any academic field to reinterpret it from a meta perspective.

What these articles share is a shift in vantage. Most of our thinking treats the world as made of things that are simply there. Things we then describe, relate, and act upon. I’ve spent a long time working from a different perspective: treating everything as irreducible, so that whatever I am looking at is all there is. To zoom in or out is to interrogate something new, not the original thing. What holds together is what’s load-bearing. It doesn’t rest on priors or decompositions beneath it.

This is not new territory. Process thinkers have used a similar perspective for decades, but much of that work remains critique. I wanted to find a path to innovate and build within it. The problem is that the perspective collapses the moment a mind goes looking for a fixed place to stand. Only with LLMs (and their capacity to hold such a configuration in tension long enough for its consequences to surface) could I begin to discern what it makes available.

Some of what follows may resemble familiar ideas or appear obvious once stated. That resemblance can obscure the different ontological commitments from which they arise. The difficulty was keeping the non-substance perspective in view long enough to discern its implications without collapsing them back into familiar pathways.

I’m not claiming any of this is correct, and I’m not arguing that anyone else is wrong. I’m telling you where I’m writing from. I am declaring a perspective. From here, these things are coherent to me. That’s the most I’ll assert. You’re invited to step inside and see whether the ideas are coherent for you and whether they make space for a perspectival shift in you.

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Editorial Guidelines

Nothing here is fixed. I may correct, revise, expand, shorten, or substantially change an article as my thinking changes. The date marks when it first appeared, not a promise that the text will remain as it was. I do not maintain a complete revision history.

These are not academic papers or literature reviews. Everything here stands on personal and others’ work that came before it. I do not attempt to catalogue every influence. I identify direct quotations, specific data, and work I draw on closely enough that leaving it unnamed would distort where the piece came from.

LLMs are part of how I work. I may use them to develop, test, or edit an article. Whatever their role, I am responsible for what I publish.

If you want to respond to something here, I can be reached at inquiry@ostyn-newman.com.