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The Periodic Table of Memes
A shitpost and a Zen koan occupy different cells in the same table.
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Toward a Theory of Software Resistance
Base units, work, and what your architecture is actually optimizing for.
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The Stoic at the Gate
A dialogue on virtue, ego, and what kind of god would look down its nose at someone who lived with integrity.
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Measuring the Grain
Git history is the empirical complection field. Here's how to read it.
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What the Grooves Explain
Monorepos, microservices, DRY, Conway's Law — each a strategy for managing the complection field.
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The Grain of Software
Coupling isn't a number. It's a field — a function of what you're trying to do.
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Pricing the Pink Slip
What if layoff risk had a market price — and workers could see it moving before the axe fell?
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Getting There
A twenty-year path from the current system to LVT — without crashing land prices or drowning homeowners.
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Freedom That Maintains Itself
Legitimacy, force, commissions, and why the system doesn't need growth to survive.
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Earned Citizenship
What if the franchise required something from you first?
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Land Isn't Wealth
Henry George's cleanest insight, extended to everything scarce and unearned.
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Is Communism a Form of Government?
A Socratic dialogue on why we judge every other system by its implementations — and should do the same here.
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Context Engineering
We engineer code, infrastructure, deploys. The context we work inside? Left to chance.
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The Second Hemisphere
Your brain has been running a language model for millennia. The external one is the copy.
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The Slowdown
Complexity breeds fragility, fragility breeds distrust, and none of it self-corrects when the feedback is hidden.
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The Solar Budget
Industrial farms optimize for labour, not land. That's the opposite of what we need.
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A Recursive Definition of Language
Language isn't distinguished from mere protocol by complexity. It's distinguished by the ability to describe itself.
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Plan 9 and the Mac
A 2006 thought experiment about what OS X could become if Apple built it on Plan 9's exportable filesystems. Much of it actually happened.