Selected Writing
OrgForge: Deterministic Authorization Systems for Organizational Governance
Introduces a cryptographic governance enforcement protocol that evaluates signed intents against machine-readable organizational constitutions and produces signed authorization artifacts. Covers the five-stage deterministic pipeline, actor model, OrgSpec format, and gateway pattern across financial, AI agent, and enterprise domains.
The Execution Gap: A Case for Cryptographic Authority Infrastructure
Opens with the 2010 Flash Crash and the 2012 Knight Capital collapse to illustrate the structural gap between the rules organizations write and the rules their systems enforce at the moment of execution. Traces the gap from human-paced institutional governance through the structural lesson of Bitcoin to a machine-readable organizational constitution enforced at the execution boundary. Examines federal appropriations, sovereign credibility, and treaty compliance as cases where this architecture becomes consequential. Engages directly with the limits of the approach, including the boundary between procedural correctness and material truth.
The New Standard of Intelligence: Rote Recall, Artificial Intelligence, and the Urgent Redefinition of Human Cognitive Value
Advances the claim that in an AI-augmented epistemic environment, rote recall no longer functions as a valid proxy for human intelligence, and that institutional evaluation systems must reorient toward higher-order capacities resistant to algorithmic substitution.
Governing the Ungoverned
Why crypto's governance rulebooks were not built for AI, and what to do about it. Traces the structural mismatch between human-speed governance and machine-speed autonomous agents through the lens of the 2022 Beanstalk exploit.