Three books, three frameworks,
and the writing underneath
The through-line is the same question asked in different registers: how people make sense of what happens to them, and whether the systems they build are any good at caring for the people inside them. The drawing that came before all of it is next door.
Ethical Business
Restoring philosophical integrity to the way firms justify themselves. The argument, and the rubrics for testing it against a real company.
Open → BookWhat Holds Us Together
Reframing addiction — what people reach for, and why the reaching makes sense before it makes trouble. Sample chapters and an audiobook excerpt.
Open → BookMind the Gap
Navigating and maintaining relationships across the distances that open inside them.
Open → FrameworkThe Ethical Business rubrics
The working formulas from the book — tools for testing whether a business, a market or a policy does what it claims.
Open → FrameworkThe corporate welfare equation
A formal test of mainstream economic ideologies — shareholder value theory, Porter, and what they assume but do not argue.
Open → FrameworkEgo as the modern demon
Descartes’ evil demon read as the ego itself, and the route that opens to the questions simulation arguments are really asking.
Open → MusicBrilliant Star
A song written for Ash, with the lyrics and a recording.
Open →The interior of the work
What the books argue, written closer to the bone.