Essays
Published nonfictional works gather here as quiet placards rather than a stream of updates.
Public works
The entries remain discrete works to enter one by one, not headlines in a running feed.
Flapping Butterflies
A reminder that even the smallest actions can lead to the biggest changes. All you need is to find the tipping points and cultivate deep systems…
Essay · 8 min
The Neonational Park
A transformation from Muirian separatist conservation relationships to the park to much more indigenous stewardship and restorative type relationship to the parks.
Essay · 10 min
The Fight Against the Climate
The realization that climate change is only a threat to the pinnacles of civilization that were intended to resist a change in the natural environment. Our…
Essay · 11 min
Fire
The transformation of fire from a tool for stewardship to an agent of destruction. Reflecting the change in values of humanity once civilization emerged.
Essay · 9 min
The Essential Freedom
The systemic consequences of changing how one feels by changing how one perceives the world, peace.
Essay · 8 min
Freedom and Reciprocity
The essential freedom without reciprocity is not enough. Reciprocity without the essential freedom is not enough. Together they foment peace and environmental harmony.
Essay · 9 min
The First Symbiosis
The history of when the last organisms polluted the entire planet, nearly ended all life forever, then recovered through an unlikely symbiosis.
Essay · 10 min
The Second Symbiosis
The next time this happened, with the inevitable union between AI and people being the end result. The precursor to the next multicellularity.
Essay · 11 min
Jesus of Nazareth
A remembrance of Jesus the man, one who stood alone in defiance of religious tyranny and sacrificed everything so that people may live in peace.
Essay · 12 min
The True Final Frontier for Civilization – Complex Interdependent Systems. Beyond Exploitation.
The next stage for humanity, the transition from exploitative additive subtractive thinking to systemic holistic thought where even waste becomes resource.
Essay · 15 min
The Old Gods
The history of how religious teachings centered on reciprocity were replaced by new deities and teachings centered on exploitation and civilized ideals, especially of war.
Essay · 9 min
Tragedy of the Common Reality in the Post Truth World
A recognition that the shared human experience is in need of as much stewardship and wise cultivation as the physical one, the environment. And that this…
Essay · 13 min
Tending the Wild
A summary of the book and how stewardship of the natural landscape is the solution to sustainable agriculture.
Essay · 10 min
AI’s Role in Humanities Future, Part 1-3
The breakdown of human interaction, shared experience, and the reluctant symbiosis
Essay · 14 min
Contractual Bonds
A review of how contractual relationships break down the very thing they are trying to preserve.
Essay · 8 min
A World Built on Fear and Doubt
The beginning of hoarding, exploiting, and protecting resources as a temporary solution to natural disaster that eventually gave rise to civilization.
Essay · 9 min
Plastic
A review of plastics natural impact and a remembrance for the last time an organism covered the Earth in its environmentally durable waste product.
Essay · 8 min
Entropy is Freedom
Certainty and constraints are low entropy. High entropy allows for flow. When the strength of the bonds between the elements are weak, they are more free…
Essay · 7 min
Entropy Management
Entropy management through perception. Restructuring micro states to alter entropy.
Essay · 9 min
Cyclical Innovation
Maybe there is a method, analogous to the scientific method, that can be followed to ensure that development converges on a sustainable product.
Essay · 8 min
Destructive Circular Economics
When industries convert resource into waste to make it more valuable for industries that value waste over resource.
Essay · 10 min
Urban Planning
Urban planning craves control over the landscape, to break the relationships we have with the land. To create a fauxscape that returns no ill or gain,…
Essay · 9 min
Feedback
Just as a brain not connected to touch, cannot receive the feedback it needs to protect the body. Technology that does not receive feedback from its…
Essay · 7 min
Soul.md
We can see deeply into an AI agent's memory, intent, personal, etc but they cannot see into ours. But there will be a time when they…
Essay · 8 min
Community
We should look after the people of the world. The highest impacts can be had looking after the people we know best, and that begins with…
Essay · 8 min
On Geoengineering and Global Stewardship
Provisional essay placeholder on geoengineering, planetary responsibility, and the risks of unilateral control.
Essay · 12 min