Topics: clinical lenses applied to current events

Each page below is a hub for one clinical lens from my forthcoming book, Proof of Work: From Fiat Life to Thriving in the AI Age, with the news-pegged essays applying that lens to current events as they publish.

The book is at /sovereign-ground/. The Substack waitlist is the email list for chapters as they are written.

The lenses

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the Not-Good-Enough Financial Mother

the Not-Good-Enough Financial Mother

The fiat financial system functions as a bad attachment figure: unpredictable, demanding loyalty while extracting value, externalizing its instability into the bodies of everyone living inside it.

the Algorithmic Mother

the Algorithmic Mother

Algorithmic recommendation systems are the cold mother — present 24/7, infinitely patient with surface engagement, completely indifferent to your actual nervous-system needs.

Fiat Work

Fiat Work

Fiat work pays in anxiety, rewards with exhaustion, and measures worth in the pain you absorb.

Fiat Creativity

Fiat Creativity

The attention economy extracts the value, the creator gets the metrics.

Fiat Music

Fiat Music

Streaming pays musicians fractions of a cent per stream.

the Body as the First Ledger

the Body as the First Ledger

The body records every trauma, betrayal, and moment of safety.

the Two Villages

the Two Villages

The Bitcoin village and the fiat village.

Vocation Over Career

Vocation Over Career

Career is what the fiat system asks of you.

Time Preference and Scarcity

Time Preference and Scarcity

Sound money makes low time preference possible.

Fiat Relationships

Fiat Relationships

The same extractive logic that distorts work and creativity distorts intimate relationships.

the Sovereign Us

the Sovereign Us

Three sovereign entities in real love: me, you, the us.

Orphan Sovereignty

Orphan Sovereignty

I joke that I work like an orphan in search of belonging.

Proof of Work of Relationships

Love is proof of work.

New lenses are added as the book’s themes deepen. Each cluster page auto-updates with the latest news-pegged essays applying that lens.

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