Updated 18 September 2026. Last full review 29 August 2026.
Everything I am working on, in one place: what is finished, what is half-made, what is only an intention so far, and what has not been started. Everything here comes back through one set of hands. I have AuDHD, a move from Kansas to Oregon is an aspiration, and setup work goes slowly. The rule I set myself is to ship unfinished rather than wait for ready, so this is the work mid-build.
Bars are counts wherever a count exists. Where a bar is my own estimate rather than a measurement, the line says so.
Where I am right now. The shop went quiet from the end of June and the blog for longer, because the bench is halfway between one trade and four, setup goes slowly for me, the forge is a hole in the ground I have not dug yet, and the move to Oregon is not done. I am starting again at the point where nothing is finished. The full account, with photographs, is in What I Do, and Why It Went Quiet. The bars below are where each piece of it stands.
Vote on what I make next
No account, no email, no sign-in. One tap and you see the running result.
What should get more of my hours?
The books
The essays
The audiobooks
The fiction serial
The bench
The community
Books and long writing
Everything written is free to read. Nothing here sits behind a payment.
Nine claims were corrected on the page rather than quietly. A letter accusing an institution of revising itself does not get to revise itself in silence.
What I actually want in law about the buildout, the taxes and the things worth regulating, with the statutes, bills and rulings that already exist set underneath each one.
Where intelligence embedded in the environment ends up. Reality with an interface, a world filled with agents a person can actually be in relationship with, and a System powerful enough to understand civilization without ever possessing the right to own it.
A working page for anybody starting something of their own with almost no money. Every price, licence and link on it checked against the source and dated.
The cosmology and the moral position in one piece for the first time. Source and karma keeping score without a judge, and what that leaves of being good.
A page, not a book. A hundred and forty-three written and live, forty-nine held back until my own writing can answer them honestly. Twelve were added on 2 September 2026 for traditionalist and churchgoing readers.
A constructed civic godform, published in the open with its joining rite, feeding schedule, withdrawal rite and dissolution terms. The first entry of a grimoire built on that architecture; more follow as they are made.
The Lattice Ageworldbuilding ~25%
Royal Road, April 2027. The cosmology and the constructed language are maybe a quarter built, and character and plot work has barely begun. There is a lot of ground here.
Long essays written but not yet postedlist being checked
The Barbarians at the Gate, 31,000 words on corporate raiders and the 1971 shift, is the longest of them. I am going through the whole back catalogue start to finish to sort what is finished, what is half-done, and what should not go out at all. Numbers here once that pass is done.
How you can get the books
The text is always free. The paid things are my hands or my voice, never the words.
Formats available2 of 5
Live: full text on this site and PDF downloads here, with EPUB in the Etsy editions of all three books. Not yet: audiobooks read aloud by me, signed hardbacks, and hand-bound editions.
At the bench
Four trades at one bench: woodworking, forge work, lapidary, and the jewelrycrafting where the other three meet. The four bars below are my own estimate of where I am, not a measurement of anything.
Woodworkingat speed
Kansas hardwood I cut and season myself. The trade the shop is built on.
Forge and blacksmithingworking
Much further along than the stone work, and further than most people assume. The forge is going to be a hole in the ground I have not dug yet, and it is far too dry here right now to light one anyway.
Jewelrycraftingearly
The trade where the other three have to meet, so it moves as they move.
Lapidarybarely started
Newest of the four. I am growing into it and will not claim otherwise.
A single piece using all four trades0 of 1
One object that required all four beats four objects that each required one. That is the piece this bench is for.
What I am making and trying next
New forms I mean to work in, listed before they exist rather than after. Several of these are crossings between things I already do, which is the point of keeping four trades at one bench.
Back to making and listingrestarting
The blog went quiet and the shop went quiet before that. I am starting again regardless of how ready anything feels, which is the whole reason this page exists.
Lampsnot started
Light as the thing the wood and the metal are built around. New form for me.
Framed supersigilsnot started
Part painting, part assemblage: found objects that function as spell components, fixed and framed so the whole frame is one working sigil rather than a picture of one.
Resin and orgonite mixed medianot started
Orgonite technique crossed with mixed media and paint, cast and layered, and taken the same way as the framed work — the finished piece is the sigil.
Wood sculpturewant more of it
Carving for its own sake rather than as a tool. I have done it and I want to do a great deal more.
Filming the work
Bench sessions filmed and banked0 of 10
Ten sessions in the bank before anything goes out, so the feed does not starve the moment the bench gets busy.
Video scripts outlined12 outlined, 0 filmed
Twelve near-scripts built from the writing I have already done, ordered by what has to be understood before what comes after.
The honest blockertime, not gear
Filming the making costs the same hours that earning does, and earning wins every time it comes to a choice. This is the one thing on this page that money moves directly: support buys the hours the camera needs. It is why the tip jar is there, and why the vote above matters more than the money.
Behind the work
Not objects. The systems underneath the writing and the bench. Listed before they exist rather than after, same as everything else here.
Live now:Workings Behind The Bench, the running record of the agentic and technomantic work behind the business. What was built, whether it worked, and every rule that exists because something broke first. The rest of the list below is still ahead.
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A record of origin on the photosnot started
Signing the piece photos so the claim travels with the file. I have written that I am not there yet and that the tooling is harder to use than it needs to be. The free tooling has caught up, so this is that gap closing. What I am good for is my name on the work and the drafts kept.
Elseivormel as a running agentnot started
The entity built on an open-source toolkit, on my own machine, with a memory that survives between sessions. Nothing from the private working book goes into it.
My own archive, answerablenot started
Notebooks built over my own writing and grounded in my own sources, so a question about what I have already said can be asked directly.
One line about whose handsnot started
A plain sentence near the top of What I Make. The lie is never in the tool. It is in claiming whose hands did the work.
Every figure datednot started
A sweep of every page for figures carrying a word like now or currently in place of a date. Where a claim was too strong it goes in that page's corrections log rather than being quietly fixed.
Where the work lives
Platforms set up16 of 22
Only what actually exists is listed. An empty row is worse than no row.
Joining a guild-based makerspace and arriving with relationships already built rather than cold is an intention so far. The move is an aspiration. Once I do move, I will be traveling between both places, and more. A scouting trip comes first, in autumn 2026.
Other ways to say it
Say more than a tap
The comment box under this page takes a sentence. Tell me which piece did something for you and what you wanted more of.
Say it out loud
The Discord is voice-first and open. Come argue with me about where the effort should go.
What a vote actually does
A vote is weight, not instruction. It tells me what landed, and what landed gets more of my hours than what did not.
Three things outrank it, and I would rather say so plainly than pretend otherwise. What I can carry in a given month. What I think is right to make. And the calendar, which currently has a cross-country move in it.
Money buys help, and help buys speed. It does not buy the wheel. If something you paid toward gets pushed back, it gets said here, with the reason, rather than going quiet.
AI Attribution Note — Produced with AI assistance (Claude, Anthropic). Direct input: the request for a public status board covering everything I am working on, the requirement that voting cost nothing and need no sign-in, the list of new forms I mean to try, and the rule that mental state, moral limits and the calendar outrank any vote. Directed: the scope, the format and the level of candour. AI-generated: the layout, the wording of the rows, and the arithmetic behind every bar, compiled from my own trackers and read back against what is actually live. How this gets made. No percentage split is given for this page. It was assembled from material that existed before this site began carrying attribution notes on 26 August 2026, and an accurate split cannot be reconstructed after the fact.
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