Chapter 5: The Axiom of Resistance
Systems can be designed to resist external control. The claim rests on computational hardness and the record of deployed tools.
Licensed To Exist
When your identity is a credential the government can revoke, your rights have already become licenses. When your money is programmable and state-issued, your freedom to dissent has a price tag the state can set to infinity. When your face is the key to your own bank account, your body is no longer your property, it is state infrastructure. Digital ID, CBDCs, and the quiet war on cash are not separate policy initiatives. They are three components of a single architecture
Chapter 4: The Argumentation Axiom and Self-Ownership
To argue is to presuppose control of body and mind. Coerced surveillance breaks that presupposition and counts as aggression.
Chapter 3: The Action Axiom: Privacy as Structural Feature
Privacy is built into the structure of human action. Deliberation and the asymmetry between actor and observer are structural.
Reducing Working Hours is Not a Whim, But a Necessity (of the Modern Day)
The spread of laziness and attention deficit across all spheres of society is not a bug, but a feature. It is the inner response to the outer world's incorrect course of action: everything around demands that we look at it — but we forget to see ourselves and what truly matters to us.
Chapter 2: Two Traditions, One Conclusion
Austrian deduction and cypherpunk code reach the same privacy conclusion from opposite directions. Their agreement is evidence.
Where Do You Want to Wake Up Tomorrow
Forty thousand forest parking spots across Europe, auto-discovered from open map data, scored for silence, isolation, and trees. Free download below.
Heating and Dissolving
Through observing myself, I identified two tools for solving any form of problem that arises on the path.
The Great Confiscation
The European Commission has produced a sophisticated, technically accomplished, and morally catastrophic document. Its wealth taxation proposals are the revenue strategies of governments facing sovereign insolvency, dressed in the language of fairness to avoid the political cost of honesty. The EU's wealth tax agenda is the system's last serious attempt to extract maximum value from citizens before the collapse it created arrives. Bitcoin is the exit.
Chapter 1: The Nature of Privacy
Privacy is control over disclosure. Observation cost decides if any targeted intervention runs, and cypherpunk tools raise it.
The Praxeology of Privacy: Endorsements, Foreword, Preface
Third edition, joining Austrian economics and cypherpunk engineering on what privacy is, why it survives, and how to defend it.
On Medieval Marriage
We need to remember why marriage exists.
Call Her Daddy's Dating Advice
I watched this episode of _Call Her Daddy_, so that you don't have to.
Your AI Productivity Stack: Ollama Cloud + Goose + Obsidian
A step-by-step guide for setting up a powerful, private AI workflow — no coding experience needed.
Financial Repression and the March Toward Serfdom
The Dutch government just declared war on private capital and most Europeans don't even know it yet. The Netherlands' Box 3 reform imposes a 36% tax on unrealized gains across stocks, bonds, and crypto, forcing ordinary citizens to liquidate real assets to pay for paper profits they haven't made. The sophisticated wealthy will restructure offshore but the schoolteacher with an index fund will not. What follows is an indictment of one of the most destructive fiscal policies in modern European history and a defiant blueprint for how free people can build their way out of it.
The Engineering Choice Between Complicated and Complex
Bitcoin converts a complex monetary problem into a complicated protocol, absorbing irreducible uncertainty into deterministic rules any node operator can verify.
Strategy is Just an Insurance Company
An article deconstructing Strategy’s Business Model, and what Michael Saylor reinvented by mistake.
Where to Start with Rothbard: A Reading Guide to His Major Works
Murray Rothbard built the most internally consistent radical libertarian system of the 20th century. This guide shows where to enter it.
The Palantir World Order
When Edward Snowden blew open the architecture of mass surveillance in 2013, he bet his freedom on the power of an informed public to dismantle it. He lost. What he could not have anticipated was the next move, that the surveillance apparatus would not merely survive public exposure but would incorporate, issue a manifesto, list on the NASDAQ, and begin marketing its dominance as patriotism. The Palantir state is not coming. It is already here, already contracted, already processing your tax returns, your bank statements, your cryptocurrency wallets, and your medical records. It is the Jekyll Island pattern on steroids except this time the creature being born is not merely a central bank but the operating system of civilization itself, with programmable money as its enforcement mechanism.
