Writing

Regulation Is Not a Magic Word

A direct response to the 'listen to experts' argument: yes to climate action and targeted safety regulation, no to speech chokepoints, surveillance, and permissioned identity layers.

Digital Freedom in a Hotter World

Why climate stress, AI concentration, platform capture, and digital repression make open protocols, encryption, self-custody, and free speech more urgent.

The Crypto Debate Needs a Better Baseline

A reputable-source, U.S.-policy-focused argument that crypto's real social costs do not erase the case for self-custody, open rails, and lower-friction remittances.

Regulate the Feed, Preserve the Public Square

A public-health and civil-rights case against Internet KYC, arguing for serious platform regulation without identity-gating the open Internet.

Authority Is Not a Mechanism

A rigorous response to credential-based argumentation: expertise matters, but policy still has to answer what power a mechanism creates and who can abuse it.

Zero to 50,000: What I Learned Building a Crypto Community From Scratch

Practical lessons from growing a DeFi protocol community as a solo community lead — what worked, what didn't, and why most crypto communities die.

Why Your RAG System Needs a Graph Database (Not Just Vectors)

Combining vector embeddings with a knowledge graph for multi-strategy retrieval. Technical architecture from a real 3M+ vector system.

Building a Multi-Model AI Agent: Automatic Fallback When Your Primary LLM Refuses

How to build an agent that routes between multiple models based on capability — with real production fallback chains.

I Built an AI Agent That Applies to Jobs While I Sleep

Architecture of an autonomous agent system with 40+ skills, cron scheduling, multi-API pipelines, and self-provisioning.