The Transition Sequence
Two books. One thesis. The ground is shifting.
Every fifty years, the rules change. Reserve currencies collapse. Empires restructure. Most people feel this. Few can name it.
The Transition Sequence provides the vocabulary.
Book 2: The Frame
Coordination, power, and the shift we cannot name.
The Problem
The flood doesn’t announce itself. It rises.
You feel it. The chocolate bar costs the same but it’s thinner. The apartment that was “a stretch” is now “impossible.” The raise that should have meant progress vanished into prices that moved faster. Your parents bought a house on one income. You can’t on two.
Everything shrinks. Purchasing power. Pensions. Promises. The rulers stayed the same - but what they measure kept getting smaller.
Most people feel this. Few can name it. Fewer still understand why. And that opaque feeling - pressure from all sides, no single cause, no clear enemy - that's not confusion. That's the frame working as designed.
What You’ll Find
Parts 1–2: The Diagnosis - Why “What is it worth?” is the wrong question. How fiat currency shapes not just money, but perception itself.
Parts 3–4: The Protocols - How Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP each answer “How do we secure truth without a sovereign?” And who decides when the code fails.
Parts 5–6: The Meta-Level - Emergence without coordinators. The HODLer as cathedral builder. Time preference as theology.
Parts 7–8: What Remains - The Sleepless and the Sleepers. The abyss AI opens that we cannot follow. And why defiance - not hope - is the only honest response.
Who This Is For
People who sense the frame is cracking but can’t articulate why. People who want to see the bars before the cage closes. People who prefer clarity over comfort.
Details
Released: March 1, 2026
Hardcover: $29.99 -
Paperback: $19.99 -
eBook: $9.99 - Amazon
Book 1: The Proto-Postnational Age
and the Rise of the Machine Dividend
The Problem
For fifty years, a heist has been running. Not in banks. On paychecks. Since 1971, productivity has doubled, tripled, compounded - while wages flatlined. The machines got smarter. The workers got busier. The gap got wider.
Everyone sees the symptoms. Unaffordable housing. Unpayable pensions. Unstoppable debt. But no one connects the dots.
This book connects them.
What You’ll Find
Parts 1–3: The Diagnosis - The Great Decoupling. Why productivity gains stopped reaching workers. Why AI accelerates the split. Why Universal Basic Income is a velvet cage.
Parts 4–6: The Mechanics - How machines create value. Who owns AI productivity. Why the state cannot regulate what it cannot locate.
Parts 7–9: The Alternative - The Machine Dividend architecture. Skin-in-the-game distribution. The unbundling of the nation-state.
Part 10: The Playbook - Concrete steps. Timelines. A checklist.
Who This Is For
People who sense the system is breaking but can’t articulate why. People who distrust both politicians promising rescue and technologists promising utopia. People who want a framework - not hope, not despair, but clarity. People ready to position themselves before the door closes.
Not for: Those seeking reassurance that everything will be fine. Those waiting for someone else to fix it. Those who confuse commentary with participation.
Details
The Relationship
Book 1 diagnoses the decoupling and proposes the Machine Dividend.
Book 2 goes deeper - into the frame that makes the decoupling invisible, and the protocols that might replace it.
You can read either first. But together, they form a complete map.
Skin in the Game
I hold significant positions in digital assets discussed in these books.
This creates bias. I acknowledge it. What I offer instead is transparency about the conflict and rigor about the reasoning.
The Question
In forty years, someone will ask: When the old money died and the machines took over - what did you do?
These books exist so you can give a good answer.