Writing / ideas / open questions
Perspectives.
Questions that concern me: who decides, who benefits, what we overlook, and what we could do differently. Some essays are proposals, others are arguments or invitations to disagree.
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NPC! The New Currency of the Ultra-Rich
On entitlement, the lives made available to other people’s ambitions, and the agency they underestimate.
Read this essay ↗01LOCK-IN VI — Space(X): Who Can “not” Afford to Enforce?On the convergence of private infrastructure, space and public authority.↗
02LOCK-IN IV — Europe Owns the Assets. Who Controls the Customer?A European commerce network—and why Schwarz could help build it without controlling it.↗
03LOCK-IN V — Europe’s defence problem may be less about mass than conversionWhat Europe already possesses, and why it cannot yet use it as one system.↗
04If AI Changes How Value Is Created, Should It Also Change How Ownership Is Distributed?A tentative blueprint for citizen productive capital and broader participation.↗
05PERSONAL COMPANIONS: The AI Keys to the Kingdom of MenA warning and five-rule policy proposal for persistent AI companions.↗
06You Back Up Your Data. Can You Restore Your AI-Enabled Business?Preserving company-specific operating intelligence across providers and failure domains.↗
07CODEX#AI — We Did It Before. Shall We Try Again?Cooperation, verification and the human record in the age of AI.↗
08AI DEPENDENCY — AND THE NEW LOCK-INNvidia, Starlink, undersea cables, governments—and the architecture of dependence.↗
09LOCK-IN I — Is AI Dependency Becoming the New Oracle Lock-In?Why continuity, portability and exit must be designed before dependency becomes critical.↗
10PAUSE — Before You Decide What Is Wrong With SomeoneBehavior is evidence. It is not always an explanation.↗
11Why I Am Proudest Of The People Who No Longer Need MeA story about recognition, not ownership.↗
12AI, Alzheimer’s, Dementia & Human ContinuityHow AI might support wellbeing while respecting the person living with dementia.↗
EDITORIAL METHOD
These pieces emerge through research, discussion and recursive editorial work with multiple frontier AI models. The arguments, selection and final judgment remain my own. Where appropriate, sources and limitations appear with the original essays.