All essays

• 2027-03-10 · 31 min · 7628 words — Lineage 40: Lee Kun-Hee, Substrate Capture at Chaebol Scale
• 2027-03-03 · 26 min · 6446 words — Lineage 39: Norman Borlaug
• 2027-02-24 · 31 min · 7543 words — Lineage 38: Henry Ford
• 2027-02-17 · 38 min · 9328 words — Lineage 37: James Watt, Patent-Licensing-Bottleneck at Industrial-Revolution Scale
• 2027-02-10 · 4 min · 945 words — Lineage 36: James B. Duke
• 2027-02-03 · 27 min · 6513 words — Lineage 35: Coco Chanel
• 2027-01-27 · 27 min · 6518 words — Lineage 34: Estée Lauder
• 2026-12-30 · 5 min · 1240 words — Lineage 33: Jack Ma
• 2026-12-23 · 5 min · 1216 words — Lineage 32: Mukesh Ambani
• 2026-12-16 · 6 min · 1361 words — Lineage 31: The Oppenheimer Family
• 2026-12-09 · 5 min · 1155 words — Lineage 30: Patrice Motsepe
• 2026-12-02 · 5 min · 1244 words — Lineage 29: Jacques Coeur
• 2026-11-25 · 6 min · 1407 words — Lineage 28: The Polo Family
• 2026-11-11 · 7 min · 1591 words — Lineage 27: William Henry Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt Multi-Generational Succession Failure
• 2026-11-04 · 6 min · 1288 words — Lineage 26: The Tata Family
• 2026-10-28 · 6 min · 1372 words — Lineage 25: The Toyoda Family / Toyota
• 2026-10-21 · 7 min · 1739 words — Lineage 24: J. P. Morgan
• 2026-10-14 · 9 min · 2034 words — Lineage 23: Cornelius Vanderbilt
• 2026-10-07 · 16 min · 3983 words — Lineage 22: John D. Rockefeller
• 2026-09-30 · 9 min · 2206 words — Lineage 21: Carlos Slim Helú
• 2026-09-23 · 13 min · 3056 words — Lineage 20: Lee Byung-chul
• 2026-09-16 · 31 min · 7579 words — Lineage 19: Lakshmi Mittal
• 2026-09-09 · 17 min · 4085 words — Lineage 18: The Stroganov Family
• 2026-09-02 · 16 min · 3954 words — Lineage 17: Jakob Fugger
• 2026-08-26 · 18 min · 4327 words — Lineage 16: Andrew Carnegie
• 2026-08-19 · 13 min · 3048 words — Lineage 15: The Pochteca
• 2026-08-12 · 13 min · 3206 words — Lineage 14: William Henry Perkin
• 2026-08-12 · 9 min · 2205 words — Doctrine 05: The Sovereign Cloak
• 2026-08-05 · 30 min · 7405 words — Lineage 13: Frederic Tudor
• 2026-08-05 · 6 min · 1463 words — Doctrine 04: The Tri-Polar Doctrine
• 2026-07-29 · 12 min · 2814 words — Lineage 12: Francesco di Marco Datini
• 2026-07-29 · 6 min · 1359 words — Doctrine 03: The Hydra Map
• 2026-07-22 · 17 min · 4026 words — Lineage 11: The Sassoon Family
• 2026-07-22 · 7 min · 1709 words — Doctrine 02: Why Quants Are Statisticians and Merchants Are Plumbers
• 2026-07-15 · 20 min · 4909 words — Lineage 10: Ren Zhengfei
• 2026-07-08 · 18 min · 4369 words — Lineage 09: Aliko Dangote
• 2026-07-01 · 20 min · 4848 words — Lineage 08: Sam Walton
• 2026-06-24 · 19 min · 4719 words — Lineage 07: Madam C.J. Walker
• 2026-06-17 · 17 min · 4168 words — Lineage 06: Iwasaki Yatarō
• 2026-06-10 · 22 min · 5280 words — Lineage 05: Mayer Amschel Rothschild
• 2026-06-03 · 19 min · 4655 words — Lineage 04: The Medici
• 2026-05-28 · 7 min · 1604 words — Doctrine 14: Publish the Attrition Log
• 2026-05-27 · 11 min · 2536 words — Lineage 03: Marcus Licinius Crassus
• 2026-05-21 · 48 min · 11894 words — Sovereign Audit 17: TSMC — The Substrate of Substrates
• 2026-05-21 · 43 min · 10617 words — Sovereign Audit 16: Tesla — Multi-Substrate Auto, Battery, Energy, Autonomy, Humanoid
• 2026-05-21 · 44 min · 10911 words — Sovereign Audit 15: Meta — Social Graph, Advertising Substrate, Llama Open-Weights, Reality Labs
• 2026-05-21 · 44 min · 10881 words — Sovereign Audit 14: Amazon AWS — Cloud Substrate, Retail Empire, Anthropic Partnership
• 2026-05-21 · 43 min · 10558 words — Sovereign Audit 13: Microsoft — Multi-Substrate Enterprise + Cloud + AI-Distribution Empire
• 2026-05-21 · 47 min · 11741 words — Sovereign Audit 12: Anthropic — Self-Audit With Full Meta-Disclosure
• 2026-05-21 · 53 min · 13048 words — Sovereign Audit 11: OpenAI — Frontier Foundation Models, Microsoft Partnership, Governance Crisis
• 2026-05-21 · 62 min · 15307 words — Sovereign Audit 10: Apple — Vertical Silicon, Privacy Substrate, Ecosystem Monopoly
• 2026-05-21 · 42 min · 10424 words — Sovereign Audit 03: NVIDIA — Architectural Operator of the 2020s AI Substrate
• 2026-05-21 · 52 min · 12763 words — Sovereign Audit 02: Google / Alphabet — Multi-Substrate Architectural Empire
• 2026-05-21 · 41 min · 10084 words — Sovereign Audit 01: The Humanoid Industrial Complex and the Substrate-vs-Parlor-Trick Question
• 2026-05-21 · 70 min · 17285 words — Doctrine 15: The Sunlit Moon Lens
• 2026-05-20 · 48 min · 11890 words — Lineage 59: Hilaire Belloc + G.K. Chesterton
• 2026-05-20 · 53 min · 13170 words — Lineage 58: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• 2026-05-20 · 40 min · 9856 words — Lineage 57: Henry George
• 2026-05-20 · 38 min · 9459 words — Lineage 56: Xi Jinping
• 2026-05-20 · 96 min · 23810 words — Lineage 55: Deng Xiaoping
• 2026-05-20 · 68 min · 16870 words — Lineage 54: Mao Zedong
• 2026-05-20 · 80 min · 19776 words — Lineage 53: Vladimir Lenin
• 2026-05-20 · 56 min · 13914 words — Lineage 52: Joseph Schumpeter
• 2026-05-20 · 60 min · 14929 words — Lineage 51: Milton Friedman
• 2026-05-20 · 62 min · 15468 words — Lineage 50: David Ricardo
• 2026-05-20 · 71 min · 17591 words — Lineage 49: Ludwig von Mises
• 2026-05-20 · 68 min · 16954 words — Lineage 48: Friedrich Hayek
• 2026-05-20 · 55 min · 13678 words — Lineage 47: Adam Smith
• 2026-05-20 · 53 min · 13178 words — Lineage 46: Karl Marx
• 2026-05-20 · 18 min · 4297 words — Lineage 45: Leopold Aschenbrenner, The Thesis as Prospectus, the 13F as Receipt
• 2026-05-20 · 45 min · 11245 words — Lineage 41: Jorge Paulo Lemann
• 2026-05-20 · 12 min · 2859 words — Lineage 02: The Hanseatic League
• 2026-05-20 · 56 min · 13865 words — Doctrine 14: The Centralization Symmetry — Why Both Capitalism and Communism Trend to Concentrated Hierarchy
• 2026-05-20 · 59 min · 14658 words — Doctrine 13: The University Pipeline — How Schools Manufacture Economic Systems
• 2026-05-20 · 59 min · 14665 words — Doctrine 12: Disintermediation Engineering — The Merchant Frontier
• 2026-05-20 · 45 min · 11069 words — Doctrine 11: Steel-Man Frameworks — Why the Mercantile Lens Requires Holding Four Architectures At Once
• 2026-05-19 · 21 min · 5202 words — The Appliance Layer of Oil: Crack Spreads, Shadow Fleets, and the Aschenbrenner Trade
• 2026-05-18 · 14 min · 3305 words — Anti-Edison 20: Trade Secrets vs. Publication: The Engineering-Society Substrate, 1880–1910
• 2026-05-18 · 14 min · 3379 words — Anti-Edison 19: Synthesis: Five Mechanisms, Five Tests, and the 2026–2030 American Industrial-Strategy Doctrine Extension
• 2026-05-18 · 26 min · 6457 words — Anti-Edison 18: The Railroad Cartel, 1870–1897: Federated Bottleneck Capture and the Brittleness of Multi-Party Rent Extraction
• 2026-05-18 · 23 min · 5712 words — Anti-Edison 17: The AI Wrapper Question: When Is a Wrapper a Spread-Scalper, and When Is It a Bottleneck Owner?
• 2026-05-18 · 14 min · 3279 words — Anti-Edison 16: Menlo Park, 1876–1881, vs. West Orange, 1887 Onward: Research as Substrate vs. Research as Marketing
• 2026-05-18 · 15 min · 3508 words — Anti-Edison 15: The Electric Vehicle Company and the 1907 New York Taxi Fleet Collapse
• 2026-05-18 · 15 min · 3558 words — Anti-Edison 14: The Edison Manufacturing Motion-Picture Operation, 1903–1909: Vertical Integration Without Architectural Depth
• 2026-05-18 · 13 min · 3208 words — Anti-Edison 13: The Edison Storage Battery Company: Premium Pricing in a Substrate Market, 1901–1932
• 2026-05-18 · 16 min · 3800 words — Anti-Edison 12: The 1892 General Electric Formation and the Institutional-Architecture Failure
• 2026-05-18 · 21 min · 5112 words — Anti-Edison 11: The Phonograph Wars: Cylinder vs. Disc, 1887–1912
• 2026-05-15 · 34 min · 8308 words — Why The Sonos S2 App Is Bad — And What That Tells Us About The Touchscreen-On-Everything Monoculture
• 2026-05-15 · 24 min · 5925 words — The Daily-Page as Computation
• 2026-05-15 · 15 min · 3548 words — Anti-Edison 10: The Tesla Licensing Rejection
• 2026-05-15 · 29 min · 7129 words — Anti-Edison 09: The Modern AI Wrapper as the Edison Pattern, Operator-by-Operator Audit
• 2026-05-15 · 14 min · 3318 words — Anti-Edison 08: Pearl Street Station, 1882
• 2026-05-15 · 12 min · 2877 words — Anti-Edison 07: The Motion Picture Patents Company Dissolution
• 2026-05-15 · 11 min · 2626 words — Anti-Edison 06: The NYC Steam Grid as Modern Architectural Successor
• 2026-05-15 · 11 min · 2573 words — Anti-Edison 05: The War of the Currents, Commercial Mechanics Reconstructed
• 2026-05-15 · 15 min · 3565 words — Anti-Edison 04: Patent Litigation as Substitute for Innovation
• 2026-05-15 · 10 min · 2472 words — Anti-Edison 03: The Iron-Ore Mining Failure
• 2026-05-15 · 15 min · 3719 words — Anti-Edison 02: The 1903 Topsy Electrocution
• 2026-05-15 · 13 min · 3115 words — Anti-Edison 01: Edison as the Original Scalper
• 2026-05-13 · 17 min · 4075 words — Lineage 44: Kenneth Forbus, The Substrate Is the Teaching
• 2026-05-13 · 10 min · 2291 words — Lineage 01: Mansa Musa
• 2026-05-13 · 7 min · 1571 words — Apple + Next + Pixar → Emacs: The Cursor-Killer Steve Would Have Built If He Wrote Code
• 2026-05-12 · 11 min · 2698 words — Why We Killed MCP, And What It Freed Us To Build
• 2026-05-12 · 15 min · 3636 words — Sovereign Audit 06: The 38-Microsecond Mind
• 2026-05-12 · 19 min · 4528 words — Lineage 42: 0theta Manifesto: I Built a Database in a Weekend; an Adversarial Review Shredded It
• 2026-05-12 · 15 min · 3507 words — Doctrine 10: Lineage Mining as Methodology — How to Walk the Recursive Source
• 2026-05-12 · 12 min · 2831 words — Doctrine 09: The Dual-Receipt System — Argue in Public, Ship the Receipt
• 2026-05-12 · 13 min · 3192 words — Doctrine 08: Capability-Graded Doctrine — How We Hedge Without Going Bland
• 2026-05-12 · 7 min · 1563 words — Doctrine 07: Lineage Mining — Rubin Meets Grossman-Stiglitz
• 2026-05-12 · 19 min · 4561 words — Doctrine 06: The Eight-Axis Check — A Sovereign-Appliance Audit Rubric
• 2026-05-09 · 9 min · 2205 words — Doctrine 01: Quantitative Mercantilism — A Field Statement
• 2026-05-06 · 33 min · 8060 words — Sovereign Audit 09: The GCN-Zig Invariant
• 2026-05-06 · 46 min · 11350 words — Sovereign Audit 08: The Mercantile Thesis
• 2026-05-06 · 44 min · 10915 words — The Mercantile Thesis: Intelligence Is Both a Utility and an Appliance
• 2026-05-05 · 33 min · 8025 words — Sovereign Audit 05: The Silicon Truth
• 2026-05-04 · 33 min · 8066 words — Sovereign Audit 04: The 38 Microsecond Mind
• 2026-04-25 · 3 min · 550 words — Physical Proof of Work: Encoding Causality into the Silicon
• 2026-04-22 · 1 min · 168 words — The Kircher Ark: Calculating the Territory
• 2026-04-20 · 1 min · 163 words — The Sovereign VLA: Why Statistical Intelligence is Not Physical Intelligence
• 2026-04-18 · 1 min · 147 words — 1GB/s Physicality: Beyond the Internet Video Bottleneck
• 2026-04-15 · 1 min · 144 words — The Causal Firewall: Why AI Agents are Lobotomized
• 2026-04-12 · 1 min · 47 words — The Zero-Hop Bridge: IPC is a Bottleneck
• 2026-04-10 · 1 min · 100 words — The Topological Desktop: Beyond X/Y Coordinates
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