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Grounded in indicative evidence of how the world we ought to inhabit actually behaves, this space operates as a laboratory of thought and practice, where probing meets strategy, and ideas are tested at the messy edge of self-organization and collective agency in open systems.

Core Premise:

Across contexts and scales, self-organizing systems are set apart from other forms of organization by four recurring structural elements.

A Negative Feedback Loop

Stabilizes the system by dampening deviations, allowing boundaries to emerge as patterns of regulation rather than fixed borders.

Agents Identification

Differentiates aligned agents from the environment through a clear principle of differentiation and a method of identification.

vision

A grand - narrative that provides a shared interpretive frame that aligns perception and action toward preferred future states.

Explicit Rules

Translate vision into actionable rules for evaluating progress toward preferred states.

Main Assumption:

Emerging patterns of self-organization persist and regulate the social environment, beyond existing systems, by developing these key structural elements:

A Negative Feedback Loop

Consensus mechanisms through which the boundaries of Earth’s living systems can be inferred and understood as a socioecological system.

Agents Identification

Alignment is defined by non-violent, non-monopolistic action; identification is achieved through an agent’s ability to construct their coherent life story over time.

vision

An open and democratic society grounded in humanity and civility, anchored in the principle of equality in interpreting events in the environment.

Explicit Rules

Voluntary participation; decision-making proportional to the risks undertaken by agents; value-aligned goals; and strong local autonomy.

Practical Orientation:

I study how agents construct self-organizing patterns that learn and adapt beyond existing institutions. My work connects systems thinking, regenerative practice, and the Free Energy Principle to explore new forms of coherence, agency, and collective navigation—laying the groundwork for the next social system.

for systems thinkers:

Frameworks to rethink regulation and coherence beyond the state.

for regenerative movements:

Practical tools for regenerative movements to make tacit knowledge legible and relational capital measurable.

for Fep scholars:

Conceptualizing collective intelligence at the social level of organization as the collective navigation of perturbations within the speech-act problem space.

for philanthropists:

Identifying and distinguishing regenerative movements with the potential to generate durable, long-term social impact at an early stage.

The Drift:

Drift names my relationship to uncertainty. Rather than resolving it too quickly, I attend to emerging thoughts and questions as a way of letting desire, thinking, and action inform one another. This is the ground from which my research frameworks eventually take shape, and where they remain open to revision. Here is a glimpse of that practice in motion:

On Openness, Plurality, & Shared Reality >

December 14, 2022
NOTE 015
Social order can be maintained by controlling individuals or shaping the dynamics between them.
September 25, 2025
NOTE 030
The scientific method is not a way to discover truth; it is a way to uncover misguided assumptions. Defend it as your right to be wrong and curious about the world.
January 30, 2025
NOTE 021
Though democracies still rely on violence and monopolies to organize society, replacing them with consensus mechanisms is increasingly feasible.
March 15, 2021
NOTE 011
An open society rests on the belief that the future can be better than the past.
December 14, 2020
NOTE 010
An open society preserves its character by maintaining the capacity to adapt both its social rules and direction, remaining poised between chaos and stagnation.
March 19, 2018
NOTE 004
A better future is as much a point in time as the Promised Land is a physical territory.

On Collective Agency & our shared Capacity to Begin >

April 13, 2017
NOTE 003
Humans are the sensory processing units of their social systems.
January 17, 2023
NOTE 016
A better world unfolds by paying attention to what already feels good, real, and possible.
August 15, 2023
NOTE 018
Three types of narrational futures shape the collective agency afforded by a society: a better yet unknown future, a known future, and an unknowable future.
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August 15, 2023
NOTE 018
Three types of narrational futures shape the collective agency afforded by a society: a better yet unknown future, a known future, and an unknowable future.
July 1, 2025
NOTE 026
Society itself is an illusion we agree to believe in.
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July 1, 2025
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Society itself is an illusion we agree to believe in.

On active subjectivity as the capacity to act within relations of power >

February 20, 2020
NOTE 008
Let the journey towards a better future bring you closer to the life you deserve to experience
September 5, 2025
NOTE 027
What fear sustains, peace dissolves. Make peace with yourself, with those who wish you well, and with those who wish you harm.
June 2, 2025
NOTE 025
Shift your focus from trust to attention, from impact to commitment, and from mankind to humanity.
June 19, 2024
NOTE 020
Challenges and opportunities require a perceiver.
October 12, 2022
NOTE 014
"Stories is the only thing that you have that is really only yours... and by sharing them with others, than everybody else has them." - Louis CK
September 19, 2022
NOTE 013
Attend to the dream that keeps you alive, and let it lead the way.

On self-organization & the capacity to turn chaos into coherent action >

September 8, 2025
NOTE 029
Real-world networks retain value by uncovering the causal structure of living systems, from forests and rivers to societies. They act intelligently, not righteously.
September 6, 2025
NOTE 028
Humanity’s future is built by vision, not resistance.
April 11, 2023
NOTE 017
Consensus on shared values strengthens social commitments and can trustlessly stabilize Earth's living systems.
September 18, 2018
NOTE 005
Temporal depth expands by shifting commitments from existing systems of thought to emerging ones.
July 16, 2019
NOTE 006
We are nested within layered social systems — families, tribes, nations, religious states, and whatever comes next.
October 22, 2019
NOTE 007
Why build systems to process transactions when we can design one to mediate the interface between cyberspace and humanity?
May 13, 2025
NOTE 024
Culture is a great example of a distributed protocol that shapes the space between agents.

That's it for now,

Come back anytime, there’s more on the way!