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The guides are the mission. This page is everything else — the broader writing and ideas that don't belong on the civic-education pages but are worth having somewhere.
Writing — Substack
A running collection of writing, some civic, some philosophical. If you want the guide updates specifically, use the email list; if you want the full range of what I write, this is it.
Books
Out now
My Little TOE
What if your entire reality arises from one simple interaction? Perception is the raw flood of sensory data, emotions, and body signals arriving every moment. Perspective is the accumulated lens — shaped by memory, language, culture, and experience — through which that information is interpreted. Reality is the lived outcome of the two interacting.
A bottom-up framework that challenges the predictive brain model and takes on the questions it raises: why two people witness the same event and tell opposite stories, why thoughts surface most strongly when something doesn't fit, and why expertise sometimes fails to account for what you know from direct experience.
Written in plain language with real-world examples. Not a replacement for science, psychology, or philosophy — a framework for making sense of experience that respects expertise while reclaiming the authority that comes from paying attention.
Short. Dense. Practical. — Understanding begins where certainty ends.
The Sedative System
Coming soon.
Recursive Perceptual Loop Theory (RPLT)
A mechanistic framework establishing that cognition, psychological state, and experienced reality are outputs of a self-correcting recursive loop operating simultaneously across biological, perceptual, and environmental levels. The core formulation:
Perception + Perspective = Reality
This is not a philosophical proposition. It is a description of a running process — one that generates falsifiable predictions, maps onto known neuroscience, and exposes a fundamental structural flaw in how contemporary psychiatry diagnoses and treats mental health conditions.
The central clinical claim is the Environment Hypothesis: a recursive perceptual loop cannot self-correct using inputs from the same environment that miscalibrated it. This single insight — conspicuously absent from current therapeutic design — reframes mental health intervention entirely. Every human being is a scientist within their own life. This theory gives that science a mechanism.