We Can Send Merz Out to the Golf Course
Why voting is the worst way to determine who will govern, excepting all of the other ways.
Living like God in France is easier to do when you live in France.
Why Americans are nearly working themselves to death and all they have to show for it is bigger trucks.
The Slow Death Of The Anonymous Internet
What if the price of logging onto the internet was your identity? The EU’s shiny new “age verification” app is being sold as child protection, but it looks a lot like the next phase of a decades-long experiment in mass surveillance; one that began with financial KYC and is now creeping into every corner of digital life. Europe isn’t just regulating the internet, but it's redesigning it into a permissioned system where anonymity becomes suspicious, dissent becomes risky, and freedom quietly expires behind a glowing age verification app.
the night the lansdowne theater breathed again
after more than twenty years of fundraising, setbacks, construction, and stubborn belief, friday night’s gala felt like the true celebration of the lansdowne theater’s return. for me, it was about more than saving an old building — it was about helping bring a piece of lansdowne’s soul back to life, honoring my dad’s hometown memories, and seeing a dream finally become real.
The Machine Behind the Multipolar Myth
You have been told a story: the American empire is collapsing, a fairer multipolar world is rising, and nations like Russia, China, and Brazil are finally pushing back against Western hegemony. It is a compelling story, and it is the most consequential misdirection of our time. The question is no longer who runs the world. The question is whether enough people notice what is being built before it is finished and whether the only meaningful response, neither protests nor elections, but a technical counter-architecture that the machine simply cannot reach, arrives in time.
The Zero Chokepoint Protocol
Every platform you trust has already calculated the price at which it will betray you. Your timeline is not a window to the world. It is a weapon pointed at you, built on surveillance architecture that traces directly back to a DARPA program cancelled the same day Facebook launched. The algorithm isn't showing you reality, it is constructing yours. What Bitcoin did for money, stripping banks of their monopoly over value transfer, Nostr does for speech. It strips Big Tech of its monopoly over your voice.
Closet Consumer
If nobody knows, you think you’re free.
my first marathon, revisited
2026-03-28: i randomly found this old article/interview that was published on a running blog about my first (and so far, only) marathon in 2022. as i begin my training for tokyo marathon 2027, i thought this was a fun re-read.
American Disneyland
Why I am vacationing in Europe. Again.
What About The Dow?
When US Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked how many of Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators had been indicted, she answered with the Dow Jones. Not as a deflection but probably as a warning. What if the men who ran the most documented elite sex-trafficking network in history are the same men holding your retirement account together? What if justice has a price tag, and it's denominated in index points? This is an indictment of a system carefully engineered so that you will always choose your 401(k) over the truth and feel perfectly rational doing so.
Unified Creation Energy Theory (2023 Draft)
God is Energy, Expressed in Layers
Caring about Sloppypasta
Prompt goes in, slop comes out. Vervaeke cries.
The Serfdom Curriculum
How the financial system was designed to keep you poor and why most "educated people" still cannot see it
God Isn’t the One You Kneel To
Who Are You Really Serving?
Once Bitten, Never Shy
When Wall Street burned the world in 2008 and walked away without a single prosecution, the public shrugged and went back to the casino. When COVID-era health authorities censored their own scientists, moved goalposts without apology, and retired with carefully managed reputations while billions suffered the consequences, the public shrugged again and kept watching CNN doctors. Two historic crises. Two perfect opportunities to evolve. Two collective failures of memory so staggering they can no longer be explained by stupidity alone. This is demoralization; the stage at which a population has been so thoroughly broken that it cannot process reality even when reality is staring it in the face. The machine doesn't need to lie to you anymore. It just needs you to keep trusting it.
What's left of the internet?
I didn't leave the internet. The internet left me.
eat, pray, lo…. nah, fuck that.
went to italy for culinary school and came back with a different realization: the life i built at home works perfectly… but might not be the one i actually want to live. a month of cooking, running by the sea, making friends, and putting the phone down reminded me that the best parts of life are the ones you participate in, not the ones you consume.
BFF: Bitcoin, Freedom and Fearlessness
You don't fail if you never stop trying.
The Basics of Yoga
The Basics of Yoga represents my underlying framework for seeing and experiencing the world. It’s a summary of life lessons and ideas I’ve formulated so far.
