The Future Has No Permission Slip
An essay on self-authorization, hypervigilance, and the point at which further preparation can no longer produce the evidence required for action.
Psychology
After I Am Received: Recognition, Inference, and Psychological Locality
A chapter on psychological locality: how judgments acquire inferential jurisdiction, when local evidence earns the right to become a pattern, and why repeated recognition can become structurally misleading when apparently independent judgments share the same source.
Before I Am Received: Anticipatory Self-Formatting, Relational Asymmetry, and the Regulatory Uses of Cognition
A provisional psychological theory of how sophisticated cognition can regulate relational asymmetry by organizing unfinished experience before another mind receives it.