Papers
Work on authorization, authority, coordination, and digital systems.
Authorization Object Network
A distributed object propagation network for authorized state transitions.
Authorization or Authority
A minimal statement.
The Painter and the Carpenter
A structural examination of how formative vocation shaped two radically different responses to the same diagnosis: that authority corrupts whatever it organizes. One sought to seize authority. The other sought to design it out. The outcomes of both trajectories reveal an unresolved problem at the center of human coordination.
Two Thousand Years Too Early
A structural reading of Jesus’s coordination principles.
Authorization as a Missing Layer in Digital Systems
A foundational framing of authorization as an architectural layer.
Digital Sovereignty Through Explicit Authorization
Cryptographic enforcement of individual control in open systems.
Time Is Not Authority
On the structural failure of temporal control systems.
Compute Substrate
A permissionless computation layer without authority.