Writing.

Essays under five themes. Canonical here first; derivatives elsewhere.

Not a Third Party to Your Own Records

2026-07-29 · Sovereignty

The Translation Layer Problem

2026-07-29 · The Translation Layer

The Trustworthy Negative

2026-07-29 · Maya

The five themes

Destructive Dharma. The operating philosophy: models and institutions that are being destroyed rather than improved, and what replaces them.

Desirable Distress. The investment expression: distressed and special-situation opportunity as a discipline, not an accident.

Maya. The screening lens: systems that report success while quietly failing, and how to verify against ground truth instead of the proxy.

The Translation Layer. The gap between conception and implementation, and the infrastructure that closes it.

Sovereignty. Owners not renters: files, structure, and rules on hardware the owner controls, with no trusted third party at any layer.