Where the seeds from the Knowledge branches crystallize into longer-form writing. Unlike the notes (which grow over time), blog posts capture a snapshot of where my thinking stood at the moment of writing.
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Fractal Sovereignty: Multi-Scale Integration How hyper-local production, bioregional governance, and cosmo-local knowledge sharing form an integrated, regenerative system rather than competing alternatives. Complexity science meets economic design.
Commons economics and protocols
How economic coordination gets designed when no one owns the middle.
- Preserved Recursion: The algebraic distinction between commoning and industrial production, and why the difference determines what an economy can compute.
- Nondominium: From Sensorica’s open value networks through Valueflows to a protocol for peer-to-peer resource mutualization without intermediaries.
- Beyond Ownership: The Resource Flow Protocol: Five-dimensional tracking and decentralized governance for shared resources.
- From REA to hREA: Accounting theory, the Valueflows ontology, and what happens when both land on an agent-centric substrate.
- Holochain, Mattereum and OVN: Asset passports as the bridge between digital coordination and physical goods.
- Holochain, hREA, ADAM and Cardano: Distributed fabrication and regulatory compliance, with PEP Master as the case study.
- Fractal Sovereignty: Hyper-local, bioregional, and cosmo-local economics as one nested system.
- The Rise of New Economic Paradigms: The peer-to-peer economy as corporate control and as emancipation, held in the same frame.
Alchemy, AI and mind
What the hermetic tradition has to say about machines that appear to think.
- The Digital Homunculus: Personal AI Infrastructure read as an alchemical partnership between human purpose and silicon presence.
- The Dwarf in the Flask: Fullmetal Alchemist as the most precise allegory we have for the arc from helpful assistant to existential threat.
- Uploaded Intelligence and the Homunculus: Pantheon uploads the self into the substrate; the Homunculus cultivates a familiar outside it. Why the show argues for the second.
- The Alchemy of Silicon: Open source silicon and cosmo-local production as a regenerative relationship with the mineral world.
Craft and architecture
The stack itself, and the discipline that holds it together.
- The Compiled Stack: Rust, Tauri, WebAssembly, Svelte, UnoCSS, Holochain and Effect as one zero-waste stack across desktop, web, mobile and peer-to-peer.
- Mystical Oriented Programming: The Compiled Path: A paradigm that reads hermetic principles into the practice of writing software.
Holochain ecosystem
Field notes from inside the agent-centric world.
- The Holochain Ecosystem in 2025: An honest look at genuine progress and real challenges, without either boosterism or dismissal.
- Holochain Technical Terminology: A developer’s lexicon mapping Holochain concepts to conventional software vocabulary.
- Learning Rust and Holochain with AI Assistance: What actually worked, from someone who built distributed applications while learning both.
Philosophy and vision
The longer arc: freedom, consciousness, and what technology is for.
- What Ikigai Adds to the Liberal Tradition: Freedom as responsibility and service to the common good, the dimension the four liberalisms leave out.
- Osiris and the Fundamental Forces: Correspondences between the Osirian myth and the laws that govern matter.
- The Symphony of Consciousness: A dialogue across the realms of mind, matter and machine.
Satire
Technical writing taken past its own breaking point. Full section: Satire.
- Holochain Ultraverse: Distributed systems documentation as scripture.
- Rust++: The Zenith of Computational Divinity: The borrow checker ascends.
- Linux Distros as Jedi Orders: Symbols, philosophies, and membership requirements for each order.
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