The short version of a long search.

I walked through the I Ching, astrology, Tarot, the chakra systems, the five elements — one tradition at a time. Each was a different angle on the same underlying thing. I had the feeling I was circling a large reality I couldn't quite look at head-on.

Then String Theory gave me the word for it: everything is flow. With the current, the day moves easily. Against the current, you burn out — even when the work, from the outside, looks exactly right.

The Human Design BodyGraph — the body chart you get from your birth time and place — was the first map that named the shape of my own flow. It explained why some moments moved through me clean, and why others felt like pushing my shoulder into an invisible wall.

"Human Design is basically about enjoying the fact that you are weird." — Richard Rudd

Where Human Design meets AI

Knowing the chart isn't enough. You have to live it, try it, get it wrong, adjust — that's how it stops being a paragraph in a book and becomes yours.

Flow Design is where Human Design meets AI: a way for a solopreneur to walk through their own daily stuck moments without going to ask another person for help. A system that understands you well enough to sit down with you, daily. That's the .work in flowdesign.work.

One solo human, one AI partner, in the open

This whole thing is itself an experiment. One solo human and an AI partner trying to run a business together — to find where the human is irreplaceable, where AI is irreplaceable, and how the two can quietly cover each other's edges. Some of it will work. Some of it will fail. The failures will happen in public, without being polished out before the post goes up.

Richard Rudd wrote that every book about Human Design is a generalisation, written through someone else's design — and that the only true book is the one written for you. Flow Design is where I'm trying to write that book, with AI, on this first try, in the open from the very beginning.

You aren't looking at a finished product. You're looking at it being made.