The Writer

I have been writing the whole time. Through the modeling, through the building, the writing was the constant, the place where whatever I was learning in the rooms got turned over slowly enough to understand.

The work here is essays and fiction. The essays are mostly about trust: what it is, why everything else rests on it, and what it takes to build systems that protect it rather than harvest it. The fiction is about people, which is to say it is about the same thing from a different door.

The Truth About Trust

10 essays: flagship series

A series on trust as the load-bearing layer of civilization, from an infant's first cry to blockchains, privacy, and the scaffolding a decent future would actually need.

Canonical home: here, on donnylewis.com. The series is also minted on Paragraph (@donny-jerri), which serves as a verifiable published-edition witness. The canonical text is here. Paragraph is a witness, not the home.

  1. 01 The Truth About Trust Published on Paragraph
  2. 02 The Truth About Trust 2: The Double-Edged Sword Published on Paragraph
  3. 03 The Truth About Trust 3: The Scaffolding We Actually Want Published here first
  4. 04 In progress
  5. 05 In progress
  6. 06 In progress
  7. 07 In progress
  8. 08 In progress
  9. 09 In progress
  10. 010 In progress

Trust in Practice

Where the argument came from

Trust as it actually works in a room, told through the jobs where it was tested. Thirty-one years of it, decades before it had a name.

Philosophy

All Philosophy →

Sustainable Fashion

Early, real blockchain and supply-chain work, written before the lines between the operator work and the fashion work were public.

All Sustainable Fashion →

Fiction

Straight Line: a mind-bending look at the flow of consciousness, time, and the origins of the universe, with a love story. Published here as the complete work; it originally ran as 13 serialized posts plus an audiobook.

All Fiction →

Poetry

Grey Beige Man

I am a man of beige and grey
to be formed like potters clay
put me up upon your wheel
spin me round get your feel
find in me what you can make
then with your eyes,
with your hands
and with your heart
make of me your art.
in this way are we both fulfilled?
our purpose found our minds stilled?
frozen now in what's been done
until once more the muses come
when what is needed yet again
is a simple grey beige man.

Sport & Mind

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