June 24, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy
What’s In Your Vault? — 2026 Edition
Sixteen years after asking what’s in your wallet: central banks are bringing bullion home, unwilling to pretend a claim and an asset are the same thing.
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These are the ideas occupying me right now — picked from the thousands of essays, papers, books, and appearances that make up a lifetime of asking questions. Some are pieces I find myself returning to time and again, some just feel right for right now, and others are what I'm still working through. The list will change as I do. Enjoy.
August 10, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy
Endarkenment — or Blinded by “enLIGHTenment”
Ninety-nine days of discipline, and then Day 100: a fallen oak, a tractor, a path that needed clearing — and horses no one knew were coming.
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July 19, 2026 · Inverted Alchemy
“Before” There Was Life and Matter
Genesis and modern cosmology both begin without the structures we call the world. Perhaps the first enduring structure was not matter, but relationship.
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May 28, 2026 · Naked in the Garden
The Lantern — Back from the Journey to Sophia
Certain journeys cannot be explained while they are happening. What came back: the open heart is not weakness, and coherence may be closer to the divine.
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April 30, 2026 · Naked in the Garden
The Irrelevance That Never Was
Ten months of examining a question so entangled it was imperceptible — the Y-fracture: coherence that was never absent, only unresolvable to the field around it.
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March 2026 · Essay
A Letter from the Journey
Not a paper — a letter from inside the journey: the single object that kept appearing across four decades and five domains, and what it took to finally see it.
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2020 · Book
Lizards Eat Butterflies
An antidote to the self-help obsession: the obstacles to our humanity are illusions, removable by a shift in perspective.
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2011 · Book
Coup d’Twelve
A global conspiracy thriller: political events, financial power and fiction begin to blur.
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