Nearly fifty years ago, I walked into a kitchen at 5:30am to cook for the Jesuits. Scratch cooking—ingredients prepped, but I start fresh every morning. My job was to conjure. A group of nuns once called me the kitchen magician and gave me a card with Merlin on the cover.
That same drive led to Wavefront Technologies at thirty—building tools to make images on computers. And now, at seventy-two, it's led to EVERYWHERE—an orchestrated intelligence system that finally matches how I've always worked.
This week I explore what happens when you build an integrator that doesn't require meetings, management, or turn-taking. The unexpected silence. The flow state I've been chasing my whole life. And why this is A way, not THE way.
Topics covered:
The through-line: something out of nothing, for nearly fifty years
Why "I don't know what I think until I say it" isn't a bug—it's the mechanism
Composer, Arranger, Conductor: a framework for working with AI
The Rocket Fuel insight: Visionaries need Integrators
What the silence of the orchestra actually is
Read the full essay: [The Silence of the Orchestra - marksylvester.substack.com]
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