Index · Essays
Long-form notes, essays and field reports. Drafts in public, dated and revised in the open.
- [05]Dawn of the Neo-Pirate EraON SOVEREIGNTY · Part I of IIIOn the second golden age of piracy. Why the AI arsenal — opened, clumsily, by the empires that built it — has rendered the cost of defection effectively zero, and why the next generation of operators will look more like Blackbeard than the Series-B founder.2026.05
- [04]Individualism as IdolatryON SOVEREIGNTY · Part II of IIIMarx caught a glimpse of the truth, but offered at the wrong altar. A reading of the failure of both modern socialism and modern capitalism — and the case for generative sovereignty as the only coherent response.2026.05
- [03]On the Sovereign ProtocolON SOVEREIGNTY · Part III of IIISingapore as the only successful example of governance by protocol — and why artificial intelligence may finally let us replicate Lee Kuan Yew's administration at scale, without him.2026.05
