Testing now
What happens when I own the memory but rent the intelligence?
The vault files itself. I am testing whether less maintenance produces better thinking.
Writing
I write to work things out, then publish the version that survived. Mostly about ownership, performance and the systems underneath both.
Everything is written here first. If you see it somewhere else, this is the original.
Questions I'm working on.
The writing starts here, before I know the answer.
In training
Can a training plan adapt to real life without losing the goal?
The week changes with the evidence. Berlin will show whether the system still holds.
In practice
How much of a one-person business can I systemise without making it impersonal?
AI can do more of the work. I am testing which decisions still need to stay mine.
2026
Own 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.
data · 22 July 2026 · 3 min read
The 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.
body · 18 July 2026 · 4 min read
The 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.
money · 14 July 2026 · 4 min read
The 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.
mind · 13 July 2026 · 4 min read
Rent 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.
writing · 10 July 2026 · 3 min read
What 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.
writing · 27 June 2026 · 5 min read
I 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.
writing · 26 June 2026 · 4 min read
The 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.
money · 17 May 2026 · 3 min read
Income is half the argument
Why AI sovereignty matters as much as the money that gets you out of the salary trap.
money · 17 May 2026 · 4 min read
SOVEREIGN
A longer project running underneath the essays, about owning the capabilities most people rent indefinitely. Your data, your tools, your attention, your health. Some of the writing above belongs to it.