Writing
The writing moves between two registers: AfterFiat is formal, versioned research on monetary systems under repression; Eschatology Report is essayistic work on AI, culture, institutions, and orientation.
I write because systems problems eventually become civilizational problems. When trust becomes expensive and synthetic noise becomes cheap, technical architecture alone is not enough. You also need language, frameworks, and public arguments strong enough to help people see what is changing and why it matters.
Writing Surfaces
One surface is thesis-driven and architectural. The other is essayistic, exploratory, and responsive to the broader cultural field.
Thesis / Blueprint
AfterFiat
Value capture is not moneyness. This 358-page, sole-author research program tests whether Privacy, Proofs, and Compute can support store-of-value premium when the full service path remains deliverable under stress, demand cannot bypass the asset, and a persistent base of self-custodied holders actually bears loss. v1.9 distinguishes protocol performance from market price and duration-neutral money from duration-bearing project credit.
Read AfterFiat →Publication / Essays
Eschatology Report
Eschatology Report is the essay and publication layer: writing on AI acceleration, symbolic overload, institutional drift, culture, philosophy, and the search for workable orientation. It is where the broader atmosphere around the systems questions becomes visible.
Read Eschatology Report →Published Research
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Machine Learning Approaches for Musical Gesture Analysis and Composition
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), 2019
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Sonification of Black Holes: Mapping Astrophysical Data to Musical Structure
Bridges: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Education, Culture, 2019
Extended thesis work: "Next-Generation Stores of Value" on SSRN · DOI
Themes
The writing returns to a handful of themes often enough that they function like a standing research agenda.
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Verification & Synthetic Media
How do proof, provenance, and legibility survive in an environment saturated with cheap persuasion and machine-scale forgery?
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Money, Sovereignty & Repression
What becomes necessary when settlement, speech, identity, and ownership can no longer rely on soft guarantees alone?
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AI, Institutions & Culture
How do technical systems reshape culture, authority, labor, and symbolic life long before anyone agrees on a final theory?
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Form, Meaning & Orientation
What kinds of structure still help people think clearly when the surrounding environment becomes accelerated, noisy, and strategically distorted?
Start Here
If this is your first time here, choose the entry point that matches the question you are really trying to answer.
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For systems builders
Start with AfterFiat: a conditional monetary thesis with ten premises, a nine-link chain, fifteen red lines, and public telemetry for testing the result.
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For general readers
Start with Eschatology Report if you want the wider field: AI, culture, institutions, symbolic overload, and civilizational mood.
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For people mapping the whole body of work
Read the writing alongside the Work and Projects & Labs pages. The thesis becomes clearer when you can see the engineering, research, and public infrastructure around it.
Read the thesis for the architecture. Read the essays for the atmosphere. Use both if you want the full picture.