Systems are built by people, and people are where systems get tested first. This bin reads the tradition and its adjacent figures through biography — what individuals built, broke, or left unfinished, and what RO inherits from each.
- P3.1The New High Priestsnot yet published Prominent tech elites — Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, and others — profiled as quasi-technocratic figures, tested against RO's principles of voluntary consent, decentralization, and engineered liberty. Distinguishes builder-innovators from managerial overlords.
- P3.2Portraits of Integritynot yet published Real and fictional figures whose lives demonstrate earned sovereignty under pressure — not saints, but people who lived principled lives with clarity and moral authorship.
- P3.3The Personalities in Objectivismnot yet published Biographical reference profiles of the people who shaped the Objectivist tradition, and the thinkers RO draws on adjacent to it — what each person built, broke, or left unfinished.
Change Log
- 30 Aug 26 — revised: removed (RSS-accuracy retrofit) -- no genuinely substantive edit exists in this file's history since 14 August 2026; every prior post-publication entry is administrative (readability trims, front-matter retrofit, filename/case fixes, pure reorganization with no lost content).
- 16 Aug 26 — Removed the three project descriptions from this page. Each project now carries its own file, and its description lives there as that file's
thesis:— which is what the contents list on this page is built from. The prose here was a second copy of the same list, kept in step by hand. No text was lost: the descriptions moved verbatim into(P3.1)–(P3.3). - 14 Aug 26 — Initial post.