Author: cleanshave

Alice: Deflationary Compounding and the Third Way to UBI

In December of 2022, the price of a small experimental token named Alice (AIus) was $0.001. Today, it’s $0.00426. That might not seem like much, fractions of a cent, but over two and a half years, it represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 79.55%. More importantly, it represents a new way of thinking […]

Anti-Aging Ambrosia: When Science meets Ancient Wisdom

In my fictional story “From Death Exempt,” the protagonist Mitch Waller discovers a powerful formula for extending human lifespan through careful consumption, dedicated hydration, and specialized breathing techniques. While the story is fiction, many of the principles behind Mitch’s longevity regimen are grounded in actual scientific research. Let’s explore some of the real science behind […]

From Death Exempt

I found the chicken feathers in Jonas’s sink. Three of them, pale and small, like witnesses. The rest of his apartment was immaculate, Jonas had always been fastidious about cleanliness, even more than me. But those feathers waited in the porcelain basin, delicate and deliberate, a message I wasn’t yet ready to decode. The body […]

Emotive Sync

When I heard the cue, I didn’t realize it was coming from me. It was a low harmonic, like a cello being played through a glass of water. Subtle. Beautiful, even. It swelled when I looked at the ad on my feed, a family laughing in a sunlit kitchen, framed in soft focus as the […]

Writing, Cancun, Mexico

For the last three months I have been living in Cancun, Mexico, taking a break from hiking, focusing on all the projects I’ve had in my head for far too long. I came to get dental work done, and haven’t yet found a reason to leave. Since I’ve been here, I’ve built a crypto wallet […]