Why subscribe?
Refactoring Experience is a tools-first publication on the mechanics of lived experience.
Most writing about suffering tries to persuade you of a worldview. This one does something narrower:
it offers a testable way to examine what a moment is made of, how the grammatical “I” gets assembled, and how suffering loops become convincing.
What you’ll find here
Teardowns: worked examples of real moments, taken apart step by step
Drills: small, repeatable experiments you can run in under a minute
Field notes: core claims, mechanisms, and “the refactor”
An Awareness track: clarity practices drawn from Buddhist and Daoist practice, explained in operational, non-mystical terms
No fixed schedule. No hype. This is a library that compounds.
The lens
I use a minimal structural vocabulary (ASNA):
Appearance: what shows up
System: conditions that shape the moment
Narrative: the story that makes it personal
Awareness: the discernibility of experience (coverage, granularity, and layer-distinguishability)
What this is not
Not therapy or medical advice
Not a religion or doctrine translation
Not a claim about ultimate metaphysics
Not a promise of quick relief
How to start
Begin with Start Here. Then pick a teardown that matches your current loop.
If you want the complete set of experiments and diagrams, the full book is Refactoring Experience: The Anatomy of Suffering and the Illusion of Self.
— E. Lumen
