The Phone Factory: Notes from Inside AI's Extraction Layer
Synthetic persona networks are commons extraction. A field note from Shanghai, May 2026.
Writing
Essays and notes on public goods, community, technology, and building at the edges.
Redistribution Is Security Architecture for the Intelligence Age
The AI safety conversation is missing a critical conclusion. Redistribution is not only a social policy preference. It is security architecture for the intelligence age.
There Is No Native Money on the Blockchain Yet
Tally sticks, mutual credit, and endogenous stablecoins — why blockchain hasn't produced real money yet, and how mutual credit could change that.
ReSource Protocol: Technical Whitepaper
The intellectual foundation of the ReSource mutual credit protocol — a comprehensive technical specification for endogenous money creation on blockchain.
How Ayahuasca Made This CEO Unplug from the Matrix
A deeply personal essay about first ayahuasca experience at age 19 in Ecuador, 30+ subsequent ceremonies, founding NuMundo, and a theory of change through impact centers.
This Could Be the Solution to Everything
An in-depth exploration of the political economy of decentralization — how community control of infrastructure could enable genuine human freedom.
The Key to Building a Truly Free Society
On bio-sovereignty, water autonomy, food sovereignty, and the infrastructure of genuine freedom.
Leveraging Digital Networks & Communities
An excerpt from the book ReInhabiting the Village: CoCreating our Future.
Why NuMundo Believes in Cryptocurrency
The case for redirecting financial capital toward regenerative communities through crypto.
Central America is Calling
Five reasons to make the journey — a personal essay about Guatemala, Cosmic Convergence, and the land that held me for years.
Ecovillage
Before trying something as audacious as engineering one of these communities from my own utopian conception of what the ideal lifestyle is, I decided it was prudent to visit a few ecovillages that have already been functioning for a period of years.
blue Energy on the Caribbean
Yesterday I made it out to Kahkabila, a Miskito indigenous village with a population of 400, on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.