Collected thoughts organized by series, searchable by tag, and archived chronologically.
Some writing is structured inquiry — essays in The Modernity Cycle or blueprints in The Civic Virtue Project. Other posts are tactical: Linux configs, tool reviews, or workflow documentation.
Everything here assumes the reader wants substance over noise.
Money was only a token of trust; when trust erodes, tokens lose meaning. The Stoics taught that wealth is indifferent, virtue essential. Rome collapsed not for lack of currency but for loss of civic virtue — citizens ceased to see the republic as an extension of themselves. The analogy is uncomfortably close. When Australians treat their country as a property portfolio rather than a common inheritance, they re-enact the same decline.