Pathways
Published pathways gather here as quiet routes through the work, meant to be entered rather than merely scanned.
Routes
Each pathway is meant to feel like a portal into sequence and return, not a loose category of related posts.
Reciprocity and Freedom
A provisional portal through works asking how freedom changes once it is grounded in reciprocity rather than separation.
Provisional pathway frame for relation, mutual obligation, and forms of freedom that do not depend on domination or abandonment.
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
Free to leave, worthy to stay
A recognition that control squanders and compromises the very thing it aims to protect because it separates it from what made it come to be. A…
Story · 7 min
Contractual Bonds
A review of how contractual relationships break down the very thing they are trying to preserve.
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
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
Fire, Stewardship, and Return
A provisional portal through works about fire, care, return, and the disciplines required to tend shared worlds.
Provisional pathway frame for fire as relation, danger, stewardship, and return rather than pure resource or spectacle.
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 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
Tending the Wild
A summary of the book and how stewardship of the natural landscape is the solution to sustainable agriculture.
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
On Geoengineering and Global Stewardship
Provisional essay placeholder on geoengineering, planetary responsibility, and the risks of unilateral control.
Essay · 12 min
A Return to the Garden
A recounting of humanities exile in civilization for breaking ancient indigenous traditions. As allegorized in Genesis.
Story · 8 min
Symbiosis and the Next Mode
A provisional portal through works exploring symbiosis, mutual transformation, and modes of life beyond extraction.
Provisional pathway frame for symbiosis as both a biological condition and a clue toward another social mode.
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
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
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
AI’s Role in Humanities Future, Part 1-3
The breakdown of human interaction, shared experience, and the reluctant symbiosis
Essay · 14 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
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
Beyond Exploitation
A provisional portal through works naming extraction clearly while looking for structures that no longer reproduce it.
Provisional pathway frame for asymmetry, refusal, and the search for social arrangements beyond exploitation.
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
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
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
Lareth
A monster that offers protection and benefits for a community in exchange for tribute. But as the monster grows, so does the tribute and the returns…
Story · 9 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
Common Reality and Shared Experience
A provisional portal through works about common worlds, shared legibility, and the fragile conditions of mutual experience.
Provisional pathway frame for how people come to share reality, lose it, and attempt to rebuild it together.
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
AI’s Role in Humanities Future, Part 1-3
The breakdown of human interaction, shared experience, and the reluctant symbiosis
Essay · 14 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
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
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