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the writing, newest first. every piece tagged to the pillar it sits under: body, home, data, mind, money. the manifesto explains the pillars.
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dataOwn the Memory →On bringing my data and my models back onto my own machine, off rented clouds. The data pillar, and the oldest distinction there is: what you own, and what you are merely allowed to use.2026-07-22bodyThe gate before Berlin →The Battersea Half in 1:28:56, even through the middle and quickest at the end. I cleared the sub-1:30 I came for. But the race was a checkpoint, not the point. On training off your own data and the body as infrastructure.2026-07-18moneyThe floor that lets you think →FIRE says pile up a number and check out. I think a good number does the opposite: it gives you a floor solid enough to keep building on. On money, the nervous system, and why I take the bridge income.2026-07-14mindThe self-writing vault →I pointed Claude at years of notes and set a few rules. Now the vault files itself at 7am and I wake up to yesterday already mapped. The mind pillar, running on its own.2026-07-13writingRent the capability, own the agency →As AI makes everything cheap, one thing quietly gets scarce: agency. The line the whole idea comes down to, drawn from an afternoon rebuilding this site from a terminal.2026-07-10writingWhat it costs to stop renting →People think owning your stack is expensive or extreme. It is neither. The real price ladder: £0, £550, and up. First in the Sovereign Stack series.2026-06-27writingI rebuilt my site around one idea →A week of building in public: tore the site down and rebuilt it around sovereignty, wrote up my real stack, and worked out how cheap a sovereign setup actually is. About £550.2026-06-26moneyThe number →£10k a month is the floor that buys out the day job. £40k ($50k) by 30 is the target. Zero employees. The maths, the gap, the levers, and why I am putting it on the internet.2026-05-17moneyIncome is half the argument →Why AI sovereignty matters as much as the money that gets you out of the salary trap.2026-05-17