What happens when boards tighten, flows degrade, or false gods begin to crack. These essays apply the framework to real systems under real stress — economic, geopolitical, ecological, social. The analysis stays structural throughout. No political positions. No predictions. Just the mechanics underneath events that are usually read through narrative rather than constraint logic.
Collapse requires alignment. Most decades don’t get there.
Series on the background mechanics of this conflict.Four new essays with two older ones in this series.
When a system cannot store what it needs, it must secure it every day—or escalate until it can.
Punch-kun, juvenile justice and other stories
A rescued juvenile macaque as the starting point for an ongoing essays series about social tolerance, unfinished creatures and more.