Proper Tools Field Notes

Essays on systemic risk, continuity, and long-horizon challenges.

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Archive

• Field Note #4 · The Sysadmin's Soliloquy
  2026-02-27
• Field Note #3 · On Gatekeeping and Curation
  2026-02-20
• Field Note #2 · What Is Truth?
  2026-02-13
• Field Note #1 · Kurt Gödel and the Limits of Certainty
  2026-02-06
• Field Note Zero: Statement of Work
  2026-01-30

Intellectual Roots

The ideas explored in these Field Notes draw in part on earlier work with the language-theoretic security (Langsec) research community.

Beyond Planted Bugs in “Trusting Trust”: The Input-Processing Frontier
IEEE Security & Privacy, January/February 2014.

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