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The project without the whole book.
5 minutesHuman Scale Audit
A private, provisional reflection on friction in everyday life.
Public launchBreak It. Test It. Build It.
Find a weak claim, run an experiment, or build a useful local receipt.
17/17 auditedEvidence Atlas
See what survived and what became weaker.
The operating system
17 chapters
1. Human NatureMismatch as a testable lens, not an ancestral command.2. Land & LifeEcological dependence, safe green space, stewardship, and site-specific interventions.3. Community · revisedBelonging as an outcome; privacy, pluralism, and exit remain essential.4. Work & TimeMaterial security, schedules, commute, care, contribution, and human time.5. TechnologyAgency, credible exit, repair, interoperability, AI, attention, and resilience.6. EnergyAbundant reliable power, cleaner supply, strong grids, and useful distributed resilience.7. EconomicsMarkets, security, ownership, competition, entrepreneurship, public goods, and freedom.8. GovernanceSubsidiarity bounded by rights, capacity, coordination, and accountability.9. FoodSafety, nourishment, affordability, resilience, ecology, trade, work, and culture.10. Architecture & PlaceAccess, housing, mobility, shade, heat, accessibility, public space, and human time.11. Education & ChildhoodKnowledge, health, belonging, capability, multiple pathways, and human-centered AI.12. Health & CareModern medicine, prevention, safety, disability, caregiving, financial protection, and palliative care.13. Family & CareCare infrastructure without one mandatory family form; support, formal capacity, and safe exit.14. Attention & MediaPersuasion, algorithms, advertising, youth safeguards, AI media, provenance, and freedom.15. Justice & RightsA rights floor beneath localism and every preferred institution.16. Spirituality & MeaningReligious freedom, nonbelief, meaning, metaphysical humility, ritual, and pluralism.17. AI & AutomationIntelligence in service of capability, rights, accountability, skill, and broadly shared gains.17 evidence audits
Novelty is not evidence of harm.
02 · Land & Life →Ecology survives; romantic mechanisms narrow.
03 · Community →Connection survives; localism becomes a mechanism.
04 · Work & Time →Time survives; schedule models become experiments.
05 · Technology →Agency survives; implementation identities weaken.
06 · Energy →Strong grids plus strategic local resilience.
07 · Economics →Practical freedom; mechanisms remain contestable.
08 · Governance →Subsidiarity with rights, capacity, and coordination.
09 · Food →Outcomes outrank local/natural/homemade labels.
10 · Architecture & Place →Function outranks visual ideology.
11 · Education & Childhood →Capability survives; one childhood model does not.
12 · Health & Care →Technical excellence plus coordination, function, protection, and dignity.
13 · Family & Care →Safe care matters more than household ideology.
14 · Attention & Media →Agency over filters; engagement is not automatically harm.
15 · Justice & Rights →Rights are normative commitments requiring institutions.
16 · Spirituality & Meaning →Empirical studies do not settle metaphysics.
17 · AI & Automation →Exposure, automation, transformation, and job loss are different.
Implementation, not only writing
Third places, shade/walking, bureaucracy, and public learning sessions.
Evidence challenges and counterexamples should create visible doctrine diffs.
Maturity begins when someone else runs the Lab without asking permission.
Find bad questions, bias, false precision, and missing dimensions.
Advertising without manipulation
Growth should come from tools, maps, evidence corrections, public experiments, failed experiments, receipts, and questions worth answering.
No fake grassroots support. No repeated unwanted outreach. No sensitive-vulnerability targeting. No deceptive scarcity. No empirical claims made more certain for marketing.
The new frontier
Disability/accessibility, aging/end-of-life, transportation, administrative burden, ownership/automation, disaster resilience, AI companionship, Audit calibration.
Public criticism, outside experiments, negative results, and doctrine changes caused by people outside the project.
First public implementation receipt that stands on its own.
Measure useful downstream action before paid amplification.
What maturity would look like
The project is not mature when it has enough pages.
It becomes mature when people other than its author can understand it, challenge it, test it, improve it, and use it without asking permission.