The reason I publish early version of the book is to get honest and critical review. So please, if you read it, take notes on when you got lost, or where you disagree, or what is missing! Zaps are incoming for great feedback. View quoted note →

## The Deprogramming Series The most common failure mode in the liberty movement is not lack of knowledge but lack of effectiveness. We have spent decades accumulating theory while watching our loved ones remain captured by ideas we know to be false. These three posts address that gap. First, read "Breaking Free: Deprogramming State Dependence." This covers the psychology of learned helplessness and why reading more Rothbard won't save you. The cure is not cognitive but behavioral: you must act your way out of the conditioning, not think your way out. View article → Second, read "The Candle's Work: Helping Loved Ones Escape the Most Dangerous Superstition." This explains why everything you've been doing to wake up your family has probably made things worse, and what actually works instead. Stop arguing. Start asking. View article → Read those two posts more than once. The instincts they challenge are deep, and the methods they recommend require practice. Third, share "What Your Loved One Is Actually Trying to Tell You" with the people you've been trying to reach. This one was written for them, not for you. It validates their frustration, explains what you've actually been trying to share, and invites them to engage with your questions rather than your conclusions. View article →

Your brother keeps bringing up politics. Your son sends you articles you didn't ask for. They seem different now, intense in ways that worry you. This piece is for you: not to convert you, but to help you understand what they're actually trying to share and why they can't seem to stop. View article →

Your brother defends taxation as the price of civilization. Your mother trusts the news. Your best friend votes enthusiastically. You've tried everything: arguments, articles, videos. Nothing works, and worse, you're damaging relationships and making them more defensive. This post explores why direct confrontation fails and what actually helps people question their own programming. Hint: it's not better arguments. View article →

NIP-85 publishes algorithmic ranking scores as signed Nostr events. Each algorithm becomes a key whose outputs you can query, compare, and track over time. Combined with DVMs for real-time recommendations, Nostr is building a layered approach to algorithmic curation. View article →

An app that builds apps is a killer app.

What separates prophecy from punditry? In 2002, Paul Rosenberg wrote a novel about cryptographic money enabling a "cyber-society with no possibility of oversight or control." Seven years later, Bitcoin arrived. Now his new quarterly newsletter "The Wreckage & The Rebuild" provides the strategic intelligence that freedom-builders actually need, connecting macro trends to decisions you can make this quarter. Subscribe at thewreckageandtherebuild.substack.com. (I've bugged him to publish on Nostr, hopefully he'll do this year!) View article →

epub of the book now available on towardsliberty.com/pop View quoted note →