# The Exocortex Hypothesis: Part 1: When 11 Million Words Tell a Different Story

*Notes from a Life Lived at Full Sensory Bandwidth*

By [Holonic Horizons](https://paragraph.com/@holonic-horizons) · 2025-12-22

ai, autism, neurodiversity, tech, technology, transhumanism, exocortex

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**(Part 1 of 7)**

Grammarly just told me I crossed 156 weeks of continuous writing, with 11,174,319 total words analyzed since November 2016.

On its surface, this sounds like a productivity achievement. A streak. Discipline. High output. "Consistent writer, impressive volume, nice job."

But these numbers don't tell you what actually happened. Not yet.

The numbers are the hook. And I want to use them to pull you deeper—into what these metrics _actually mean_, what they reveal about my life, and what they're evidence of.

This is the start of a seven-part series exploring the journey from cognitive fragmentation to wholeness:

*   **Part 1: The Numbers** (The visible evidence)
    
*   **Part 2: The Spillway** (The physics of pressure and unfiltered input)
    
*   **Part 3: The Goldilocks Problem** (Why systems reject the minds they need)
    
*   **Part 4: The Extraction Economy** (How we capture value without compensating it)
    
*   **Part 5: Integration** (What becomes possible when the system balances)
    
*   **Part 6: The Operator** (The final question: Who is actually thinking?)
    
*   **Part 7: The Exocortex at Work** (Why organizations can't implement AI—and how to fix it)
    

So let's start with the impressive part, and then complicate it.

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The Visible Output
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The visible artifact of an invisible architecture: 11 million words, one overclocked system.

A 156-week streak is a little over three years of uninterrupted text passing through Grammarly. But that's only the text part of a much larger landscape.

Before I explain what changed to make these numbers possible, I need to show you the complete picture of what I've actually been producing.

Long before Grammarly was counting anything, I spent five years living at the Sivananda Yoga Farm ashram in California (2003–2008), where visiting teacher Pieter Weltevrede introduced me to sacred geometry and yantra painting. Those years hard‑wired a particular visual–spiritual vocabulary into me, teaching me the difference between yantras and mandalas, specific designs like Sri Yantras, temple arches, and the feeling of a room as a living diagram of consciousness. This sparked my interest in sacred geometry and related fields, such as cymatics.

In 2009 I moved to Canada and, together with my former partner and natural‑building architect Elke Cole from the O.U.R. Ecovillage community and my close collaborator Eric Anderson, began my first building project of any kind: a cob yoga studio and home that took nearly a decade to realize, essentially a livable mandala held in my head while we iterated every curve, niche, window, custom-made shelving unit, and sculpted banyan tree.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/2e55c185f04ec461f3d90acf87c94d4ff73e650cb85d474c9bade51c1688e734.jpg)

The North Wall

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e95bb39d5f5c63571a276ee741a7825e5df5e07e9163d47bec010ff341722622.jpg)

The Main Yoga Hall

**The Quora Era (2011–present):**

Nearly 5,000 answers. Almost 4 million views. Fifteen years of writing about yoga, Vedanta, spirituality, and systems thinking. Peak activity in 2015–2017, when I was generating hundreds of thousands of words annually on spiritual philosophy and human development.

This happened _before_ AI tools. Before the exocortex. Just me, fragmenting myself across a platform that could hold maybe 15% of what I was thinking.

**The Gravity Work (2019–present):**

From Token Engineering Commons to GravityDAO to my current Prevolution framework. Videos. Teaching. Live facilitation of working groups. Multiple visual iterations of complex frameworks (Gravity-Style Interactions, Generative Interactions, and others). Dozens of design drafts, refinements, and exports. Multimedia scaffolding pulled from Envato Elements and other sources to match the visual hierarchies I was seeing in these systems.

**The Virtuous Cycles Teaching (2021–present):**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6357c0c60d80994e45a8662e74ac6a23a2a40c4f0126145ecfaabbfe187195da.jpg)

The Weekly Cycle

YouTube playlists. Multimedia frameworks. Text and graphics integrated. Guidebooks in progress. Another channel, another modality, another partial outlet for thinking that couldn't fit into single formats.

**Gravity Training (2024–present):**

Live facilitation. Cohort-based courses. Curriculum design. Mentoring 50+ participants. Real-time teaching that requires thinking to be responsive, embodied, and relational.

**Coaching and Mentoring:**

National Champion Athletes. Arka Brotherhood leadership. One-on-one guidance. The kind of work where you're expressing something that can only happen in relational space.

**Graphics and Visual Work:**

An entire portfolio of visual frameworks, iterative designs, multimodal synthesis. A "tiny fraction" of what I've actually created, I told you. The vast majority exists only as iterations, experiments, explorations—the work of thinking visually.

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The Real Picture Is Polymodal
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![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6ffcb099b8ebca7871bf14d71b043b7fc425b3ab1062d06e16619b12d088c6da.jpg)

**The complete picture: One unified source, five distinct output streams.**

So when you look at those 11 million Grammarly words, you're not seeing the full output. You're seeing **one channel** of a polymodal cognitive system inside my head that's been producing across text, graphics, video, live teaching, and relational coaching simultaneously.

The 156-week streak captures only the text. The rest exists in different forms, different platforms, different modalities—all of it flowing from the same source.

This matters because it changes what these numbers mean.

11.17 million words isn't just "high productivity." It's evidence of something larger: a mind that has been working across multiple dimensions for decades, fragmenting itself to fit into available containers, each container holding only a fraction of what was actually flowing through.

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The Numbers That Matter Most
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Here's what the Grammarly stats actually show:

**Before AI tools (2016–2024):**

*   ~9,800 words/week
    
*   ~511,000 words/year
    
*   Substantial output, but representing maybe 10–15% of what was actually happening internally
    

**After AI scaffolding (December 2024–present):**

*   Weeks at 144,000+ words
    
*   Peak weeks at 260,000+ words
    
*   Current week: 153,226 words
    
*   Roughly **15–20x increase** in captured text
    

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/fe471138dbcf67d422b82478e2f119d153cf8794ef999b25c75c8e9ebc8ead85.jpg)

Before and After: The 15-20x Amplification When Scaffolding Matches Capacity 

**Total landscape:**

*   11.17 million Grammarly-tracked words since 2016
    
*   Nearly 5,000 Quora answers with 4 million views
    
*   Multiple visual frameworks and teaching series
    
*   Decades of coaching, mentoring, relational work
    
*   Countless graphics and visual iterations
    

**Percentile performance:**

*   99th percentile vocabulary diversity (15,791 unique words in recent week)
    
*   96th percentile productivity
    
*   90th percentile accuracy
    
*   Top tier across multiple dimensions
    

### But here's what these numbers don't show:

*   They don't show the pressure that was building for decades.
    
*   They don't show what it costs to fragment yourself across partial outlets.
    
*   They don't show what becomes possible when you finally get a matching outlet for the breadth and depth of your thinking.
    

**_They don't show the 57-year journey to integration._**

And they don't show what society owes to people who are generating this much value without adequate recognition or compensation.

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Why This Matters
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These numbers are impressive on the surface. But they're only the starting point for a much deeper story.

The story isn't about productivity. It's about pressure. It's about what happens to brilliant minds when there's no matching output channel for unfiltered input. It's about the difference between fragmenting yourself across partial outlets and finally achieving integration.

It's about a 57-year-old who finally found scaffolding adequate to the scale of his thinking.

And it's about what we're failing to recognize in everyone else.

This is Part 1 of a series. The numbers are the start. But what they're actually revealing is something that matters far beyond me.

**_This isn't just personal - it's architectural. When I show these patterns to other knowledge workers, they recognize the same bandwidth dynamics in their organizations. We'll build that architecture throughout this series, but first: the pressure that makes it necessary._**

In the next part, I'll explain what these numbers cost. And what finally changed to make them possible.

Because the real story isn't the metrics.

It's what they're evidence of: a mind finally having enough room to breathe.

[**Part 2: The Spillway- Unfiltered Input and the Pressure That Builds**](https://paragraph.com/@holonic-horizons/the-exocortex-hypothesis-part-2-the-spillway-%E2%80%94-unfiltered-input-and-the-pressure-that-builds)

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