Research
Research and position papers on influence, artificial intelligence, leadership, and the architecture of belief.
- Essay
The Manual and the Game
An essay on what the text is for. Two people read the same instruction manual and come away believing opposite things, and the arguing may be the tell that we are using a strategy guide as a scorecard.
July 27, 2026 · 15 min read - Working paper
The Loop and the Calf
A companion paper arguing that much of the prophetic literature specifies bounded, terminating processes rather than predicting events — and testing that reading against Exodus 32 and the machines we are building in the delay.
July 25, 2026 · 53 min read - Working paper
The Authored Block
A companion paper to The End of the Sixth Day, tracing seven structural correspondences — and four points of resistance — between relativistic physics and the book's simulation-theological framework.
July 25, 2026 · 43 min read - Essay
The Wheel and the Block
An essay on the two oldest pictures of time — the wheel of eternal return and the block held all at once — and why the weariness of the circle is the view from inside a scroll not yet seen rolled.
July 22, 2026 · 12 min read
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