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How I Became a Christian
A rationalist's journey to faith—from southern Baptist childhood to angry atheism to genuine belief.
philosophy · personal · christianity · religion
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Essays & field notes
Long-form thinking on governance reform, institutional design, technology, faith, and the craft of building things that last.
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The Iron Gold Thesis: Why Red Rising Is a Right-Wing Masterpiece
A tragedy about elites in the oldest sense: what the best men owe, what happens when they stop paying it, and what happens when a civilization decides it doesn't need them at all.14 margin notes3 figuresListen · 31 min26 min → - Annotated argument
Effective Altruism is evil
Effective Altruism is a totalizing, evil philosophy. This essay walks through why.6 margin notes2 figuresListen · 36 min30 min → - Annotated argument
The Goodhart Civilization
Everything got worse after 2010 for one reason: markets stopped selling us things we value and started optimizing the dopamine system itself. Goodhart's Law at civilizational scale — the diagnosis, the receipts, and the only way out.25 margin notes8 figuresListen · 1 h 34 min78 min → - Evidence explorer
The Claims Ledger: What Survived Contact With the Record
Every claim made in a three-hour interview about NASA and Apollo photography, numbered, timestamped, and worked to a public verdict — laid along the interview’s own clock.434 claims · 21 sections3 dossiers5 min →
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The Complicated, Un-Sexy, Actually-Working Solution to AI Agent Long-Term Memory
35 min →How a persistent structured-markdown memory and context-engine system gives AI agents real long-term memory by solving data quality at write time and surfacing context when it matters.
ai · agents · memory · engineering
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Peer-Reviewed Academic Paper on Prospera Governance
1 min →A peer-reviewed paper on the history, formation, and governance structure of Honduras's first ZEDE.
governance · prospera · economics · zede
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Hello World: Building The Control Room
1 min →An introduction to this site and what I hope to accomplish.
meta · personal
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The Future of Music is Electronic
10 min →Why we're running out of traditional melodies and how software-modified timbre opens an infinite frontier for musical creation.
economics · music · technology · intellectual-property
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The Voluntaryist Constitution
1 min →A theoretical framework for constitutional governance based on voluntary association, consent, and the protection of individual rights.
governance · philosophy · libertarianism · politics
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