ideas
essays, book reviews, creative experiments, and field notes on technology, philosophy, and building without permission
making post-quantum signatures faster
why I tested six signature libraries, how I checked speed and memory tradeoffs, and the patches and public reports that came out of it
oct 12, 2026post-quantum authentication in Prague
notes from the IAB workshop in Prague on Merkle Tree Certificates, HSMs and the infrastructure needed to migrate authentication
oct 12, 2026buildingcrypto-agility.json: a place to publish cryptographic posture
why i proposed a discoverable crypto-agility manifest, what the latest revision separates, and where the IETF draft stands
oct 11, 2026buildingDeadline aware hybrid optimization for ISP traffic engineering
Can quantum optimization improve routing before its answer expires? A research preprint with conditional proofs, resource estimates and reproducible code.
oct 11, 2026my post-quantum proposals for Nostr
seven related drafts on keys, encrypted messages, signer capabilities and relay migration, with their dates and implementation boundaries
aug 17, 2026
open hand
a love poem set on a beach at sunset - footprints, melting ice cream, pruned hands, and love as an open hand that holds by letting go
jul 23, 2026
a view on karma, birth and rebirth
death before the comfort stories cover it up - samsara, karma, the no-self read of rebirth, and the flicker of dying and being reborn in every now
jun 25, 2026
a quiet wound
a poem on looking at the full moon after a love has ended - the rose, the thorns, and a glow that aches
jun 24, 2026
consciousness as a nested perspective
consciousness nests at every scale, cell to body to planet to galaxy, each one a perspective the others can't articulate. a panpsychist lean held openly
jun 24, 2026
it fell as snow
a short poem on the water cycle - snow, ice, river - and lying in a warm spring older than bones, younger than breath
jun 24, 2026
secret symmetry
a poem on ego death framed as a leap from the bridge - releasing anger and illusion to seek nobility and strength, and a secret symmetry with those who leapt before
jun 24, 2026
the space between two truths
a poem on letting go without surrender - on love that is not a mirror but the space between two truths, and being held even when the sky turns to rain
jun 24, 2026
the invisibility sutra, read as attention and not optics
patanjali's power of disappearance, read not as bending light but as cutting the link between seen and seer — a trainable skill of becoming attentionally negligible
jun 13, 2026
on the misconception of the senses
your senses don't record reality, they sample it. a checkable walk through sight, touch and taste, and the best guesses your brain never admits it's making
jun 11, 2026
why i built pqc-tools
turning post-quantum research into open tools for cryptographic discovery, migration planning and repeatable checks
jun 9, 2026
layered approach to non-duality teachings
what are you? not a body, not a mind, but the seeing it all shows up to. a layered walk through non-dual experience, ending in the now
jun 7, 2026
the immutable and the exposed: bitcoin protects its past, nostr cannot
bitcoin and nostr will feel the same quantum blow, but it lands in opposite places. one you can defend, the other has already been harvested
jun 3, 2026
the road to death
a man hears that god left his face in death, so he walks toward it, meeting younger versions of himself along the road
jun 3, 2026
why i started QuantaKrypto
twelve years in blockchain and cryptographic systems, a decision to close my business, and the research that led me to post-quantum security
jun 3, 2026
nominal value fallacy
we've confused a number as the definition of wealth, but that math doesn't hold in traditional finance. what if everything you work for today, is worth more tomorrow
apr 16, 2026
the price of everything is the price of the dollar
five products, one pattern – why prices rise when we keep getting better at making things
apr 5, 2026
the big mac should be getting cheaper
a fixed product rose 154%. CPI says 82%. the gap tells you everything – US 2000–2024
apr 2, 2026
12 rules for life: a personal review
a personal review of peterson's book through two readings, fear and growth, and what changes when you learn to self-regulate
mar 30, 2026
finance is the 6th pillar of biohacking
financial fitness is a biological advantage, financial discipline is a biological investment
mar 13, 2026
social networks and custody mismatch
why the social graph should be infrastructure, and what it costs when it isn't
mar 11, 2026
nostr is centralizing. by design
every centralization point was a rational response to a missing tool. each solved problem removed the pressure to build what would have prevented the next one
mar 5, 2026
window.nostr.wot: a shared Web of Trust for browser apps
my February proposal for a browser extension API that lets Nostr apps query a user-controlled social graph
feb 24, 2026
the power of independence
five layers of independence – the difference between needing less and having more
aug 28, 2024