Larry Todd Wilson · writer and instrument maker
LT Wilson
Instruments, books, and writings on attention, metacognition, and eight ways of knowing.
01 · The work
There is one continuing inquiry.
It asks how knowledge can be made visible without reducing it, and how artificial intelligence can assist without claiming what only a person can know.
8
The integrated instrument for AI work
See which kinds of knowledge you and an AI are using—and which you may not be reaching. Then scope, brief, review, and adjust the work before you trust it.
Knowledge
Harvesting®
The method behind the instruments
Thirty-seven years of structured questions for making expert knowledge explicit, from EOR and LearnerFirst to 8 and the developing professional instrument, 96.
Joy
Six Traditions, Eight Ways of Knowing
Six religious traditions read in their own terms. Their doctrines differ; their practices and fruits sometimes converge. The book shows both without forcing agreement.
Turiya &
Turiyatita
The Twofold Path to One
Nine contemplative traditions put to one question: what is the awareness in which waking, dreaming, and deep sleep all appear? Their genuine divergences remain in view.
02 · The lineage
Before it was AI work, it was human work.
The method did not begin as a product. It began with the problem of helping a person think a whole problem through—and with the conviction that software should augment human intelligence, not replace it.
1989 EOR established the foundation; 1992 LearnerFirst put structured questions inside the work; 1996 Knowledge Harvesting® made expert knowledge explicit; and in 2026 8 made the capture surface repeatable, with the professional instrument 96 in development.
Read the 1989 thesisA working principle
Presence is open. Action is governed.The field of presence must be named.
Name the room before you enter it: this question, these sources, this work. Inside that boundary, reading, thinking, and speaking may remain open. Before anything changes in the world, the human decides.
03 · Writing
Notes from the field.
Methods, releases, inquiries, and records of what happened while a human and several AI systems worked together.
The Language of Fear Is Not Finished
From research to manuscript to a working tool, and toward a more practical book.
↗ 02Open by Default, Held at the Gate
How one human and two AIs learned to work together.
↗ 03Two of My Instruments Just Became One
8 v0.6 folds Protocol into the instrument.
↗ 04Let’s Talk About Wonder
Eight doorway questions, walked and answered aloud.
↗ 05Is Your AI Too Agreeable?
Agreement that is not earned by evidence is just momentum.
↗ 06I Built a Mirror
Two books, and the self-knowing they were designed for.
↗ 07Five Whys: Why Does Joy Exist?
A descent, in five questions, from the Joy book.
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