Field notes
Journal
First-principles essays on cyber, AI, and machines — and fragments from the world of Malmorthael.
010 · essay · May 29, 2026
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Today I officially received my CISSP. This is the roadmap: a steel plant, a 4.0 master’s, twenty-three certifications, a novel, and one testing-center afternoon.
009 · essay · November 5, 2025
Bitcoin as Proof-of-Work Cyber Defense
If a mechanism can route traffic through Bitcoin’s proof-of-work, the cost of a malicious attack becomes the defense.
008 · lore · October 1, 2025
The Perfect Agentic Organism
He sat looking out of the dark cave as the sun set. Below, a lush green forest swayed. Tonight his experiment would either become a kingdom — or another failure.
007 · essay · September 28, 2025
Rise of the Titan Class
Nine American companies sit above a trillion dollars. The next category will not be mega-cap. It will be Titan.
006 · lore · September 27, 2025
Bringing-forth
Bringing-forth was his name and it was his purpose. He assembled Lokan wood, Hubrir stone, and blood — and from the clay a man stood up.
005 · lore · September 24, 2025
AI/ML
Like a giant brain being attacked, its body spasmed as it was ripped apart. This was the age of distillation, and Seeker would not be denied.
004 · lore · September 22, 2025
Lokanir II
Lokanir made her way back to the hovel she had built. To him she was dead. She would do whatever it took to get home and tell him the truth.
003 · lore · September 20, 2025
Lokanir
She walked under a blood-red moon. Her hands were soaked from fingertips to elbows. Long had she been trapped in this prison of a world.
002 · lore · September 17, 2025
The Enhir
He stood alone overlooking the grey rock landscape. One citadel down. Thirteen to go. Three hundred miles away, a pair of eyes opened in the darkness.
001 · essay · September 13, 2025
The Tesla of Aerospace
Imagine flying from Chicago to Paris for $5. What is needed is first-principles thinking, alien-dreadnought factories, and a third player.