Essays and notes

Public writing on systems, attention, behavior, AI-native work, and ideas that benefit from being explored in public.

April 30, 2026

Three Monetization Models for Adversarial Economics

How to turn the S = (U + R) / D scam-asymmetry model into three implementable products: an inbound firewall, a marketplace API, and a transparent recovery directory.

April 30, 2026

Scam Alert Pie: A UX Case Study Against Warning Blindness

How a static scam warning can become wallpaper, and how a small Danger -> Micro-lesson -> Antidote pattern can protect low-energy users in hiring products.

April 29, 2026

Hiring Scam Detection as Adversarial Economics

A simple monotonic metric for detecting extraction in hiring, plus a copy-paste ChatGPT rescue flow for low-energy situations.

April 29, 2026

What Does Not Kill You

A valuable aphorism, a dangerous oversimplification, and the missing conditions that separate growth from damage.

April 27, 2026

The Architecture of Societal Equilibrium: A Framework for Dynamic Restorative Justice

An exploration of the mathematical, technological, and institutional foundations required to construct a Dynamic Network Accountability system that neutralizes the incentives of authoritarian regimes.

April 27, 2026

Market Research on Networking Systems and Algorithmic Matching: Anatomy of Failures, Structural Barriers, and Innovative Architectures (2013–2026)

An exhaustive, professional audit of the market: deconstructing the reasons for the death of hundreds of startups, analyzing the physics and psychology of retention, and synthesizing new product concepts.

April 13, 2026