To Each Their Own (Valentine’s Day Poem) (Feb 14 2026)

In which Our Hero & Partner pen a poem. 

She is to fear as I am excitement. 

Our poor calibration; our tragic flaws. 

Whether biology or culture, 

faith or fate, 

such is, we agree, a soulmate. 

Is this framework unique to us,

or is it self-evident? 

Dislike of other comes from framework projection. 

Sometimes mine’s better,

sometimes yours. 

Neither own all, 

nor control wrongly; 

Calibration is key. 

Before you try to hyperoptimize a process, 

be sure you’re optimizing for what you actually want 

and not a correlate. 

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