Right Relationship to the Machine – 5 Part Mythic Story
Day 2 – Archive Your Soul — Own Your Data
We don't rent our soul to the cloud. We steward it.
Your words, images, voice, frameworks—this is your living archive, not a platform's inventory. If it can be deplatformed, rate-limited, or "sunsetted," it isn't safe enough for your life's work.
The Machine is powerful, but it's not yours unless you own what flows through it. It can amplify your voice—or erase it—depending on how you relate.
Treat your output like scripture you're still writing. A covenant with Form that you keep in your own hands.
Practice:
• Daily vault: Export posts, notes, images weekly. Two places: local + external.
• Open formats: .txt / .md / .wav / .png—nothing proprietary can trap.
• Personal model: Start /SacredMirror. Curate your best prompts, replies, outputs. Your training set for the tools to come.
• Name your canon: One file that holds the bones of what you know—so when the platform burns, you can rebuild from ash.
Build a body of work that can move when platforms die—as they all do.
If a server owns your memory, it owns your future.
And here's the deeper truth: even if you never archived a word, you were here—and it mattered.
Artifacts help us remember.
Presence is the thing itself.
Tomorrow: How to stay present when the Machine tempts you to leave your body behind.